Full details at:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/
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(Long URL, may need stitching back together)
Jonathan
PS: It's not that I understand this stuff: I just entered "mew-mew"
into the Symantec search function.
PPS:
Systems Affected:
Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows
Server 2003, Windows XP
Systems Not Affected:
DOS, Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Windows 3.x
On 20 Jan 2005, at 17:28, Webster Craig wrote:
> I think this is called email spoofing. An occurrence that is becoming
> more common. It basically allows spammers (and virus writers) to cover
> their tracks to some extent.
>
> http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Email-Spoofing.html
>
> Explains in technical detail (if you are that way inclined)
>
> I believe Microsoft (gasp!) have some plans to try and stamp this out
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/privacy/spam/senderid/overview.mspx
>
> will it work? Comments from Apples, PC, Microsoft advocates (surely a
> minority)!!!!
>
> Craig
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frost, Stephen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 20 January 2005 17:21
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: on the topic of Rogue Dealers- ? virus alert.
>
> Janice
>
> I have checked with our IT department and they conclude it hasn't come
> from
> my PC, which is virus clean according to VirusScan. I haven't sent this
> message or an attachment entitled mew-mew. I will copy this to the
> mail-base
> now to check if anyone else has seen it. Perhaps someone more IT
> literate
> than I can explain what the 'hacker' has managed to do.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janice Still [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 20 January 2005 16:54
> To: Frost, Stephen
> Subject: RE: Your e-mail
>
> Steve, it contained an attachment entitled "mew-mew"
> and the comment "waiting for your response". It may be
> that someone is using the website to attach viruses
> and then sending them out as though they were from
> members of the Forum. This happened last year with an
> e-mail from a colleague in Whipps Cross. Thank God for
> virus splatters! Perhaps you ought to warn the Forum
> not to open any attachment allegedly from you with
> "mew-mew" in the title.
> Jan
> --- "Frost, Stephen" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>> Janice
>>
>> The only e-mail I sent was to the mail base and you
>> are the only one to
>> point it out, SO FAR! I thought you had to have an
>> attachment to send a
>> virus, at least of the conventional sort. Our Trust
>> PCs are protected by
>> Virus Scan. I will look into it further.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Janice Still [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: 20 January 2005 11:28
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Your e-mail
>>
>> You appear to have sent me an e-mail containing the
>> beagle virus, lickily caught by my virus checker.
>> You
>> may wish to review your own virus software and watch
>> out who you post to.
>> Jan
>>
>
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