VIRUS WARNING SUBJECT: [ltp] Administration

[Norman Levin]

Interesting.  Mailwasher indicated that this was a virus!  My Norton didn't
give a 'beep'.  Anyway, anybody who reads attachements to a 'news group'
is living dangerously.  
norm
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Mair" <bill.mair@t-online.de>
To: <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 4:14 AM
Subject: VIRUS WARNING SUBJECT: [ltp] Administration


| A BOGUS MAIL WITH A VIRUS WAS SENT TO THE LIST YESTERDAY !!!!
| 
| Subject: [ltp] Administration
| 
| The mail contains a virus infected attachment called README.EXE and
| is hidden with the mime type audio/x-wav.
| 
| The virus is known as PE_BRID.A, THE KLEZ VIRUS or W32.Brid.A, just
| DELETE it.
| 
| See the following symantec page for details:
| 
| http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.brid.a@mm.html
| 
| 
| And someone in the University of Puertorico is responsible for
| maliciously sending this mail to the list ! Not from an infected
| computer, but with the intent of infecting as many computers as
| possible.
| 
| Thank god, I use Linux.
| 
| To counter this behaviour in the future, I have set the mail size limit
| to 20k for all future postings.
| 
| If you have windows, and have double clicked on the readme.exe then you
| are most probably infected.
| 
| I am not sure about the M$ Outlook thing, maybe it executes attachments
| that are audio/x-wav auto-magically ?
| 
| I am currently in discussion with the sysadmin for the mail list server,
| we will figure something out..
| 
| Sorry for any inconvieniance that this may cause, but nobody has a
| perfect protection against hackers, and sending a virus infected to a
| mailing list is really the lowest of the low.
| 
| Bill
| 
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