-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've gotten a few messages of this kind. their one downfall is the atachment is a .pif file so only a person with very little skill would open it. if they wanted to target a wider variety of users it should have been a msword doc. On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:55:37AM -0500, showell at lrxms.net wrote: > Folks, > > Yes there are some amazing viruses or whatever you want to call them > running amuck. Check out the following its pretty interesting. I've not > included the header info, but its the text of the message that I find > slightly amusing. > Note there is no attachment so don't be alarmed by what you read. > > > Subject: Notify about your e-mail account utilization. > From: support at lrxms.net > > [-- Attachment #1 --] > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --] > > Dear user of Lrxms.net gateway e-mail server, > > Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, > to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our > free > auto-forwarding service. > > For details see the attach. > > Best wishes, > The Lrxms.net team http://www.lrxms.net > > [-- Attachment #2: Information.pif --] > [-- Type: application/octet-stream, Encoding: base64, Size: 16K --] > > [-- application/octet-stream is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) > --] > > The part that is amusing to me is I didn't know I had a support team, I > didn't know I had a mail server/gateway, and well although lrxms.net is > my domain, I don't have a web page at http://www.lrxms.net. I am very > interested in this virus all the same for what its doing. > Clever! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFASP7F9XVrM3ri110RAihVAJ9Te3bpfIAD3cR9vHudL6xMRN1gygCdHzWS FN78ActiD7V2OT1jYF4zRU8= =ZUI+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----