On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 11:08, Yuji Yamano wrote:
> Michael Flora <mrflora@ieee.org> writes:
>
> > Hey all, this email was in my inbox this morning. It did not have any
> > attachments and contained no password or link to a website. I have not
> > replied to it (not yet, anyway). Has anybody else received a similar
> > message? Is this just a hoax?
>
> I've received too many similar messages:-< and I think it's a variant of
> W32.Frethem.B@mm virus.
>
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.frethem.j@mm.html
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.frethem.k@mm.html
The debian-user mailing list got one too, but was cleansed:
------------------ Virus Warning Message (on smtp1av)
Found virus WORM_FRETHEM.K in file decrypt-password.exe
The uncleanable file is deleted.
---------------------------------------------------------
-- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: ron.l.johnson@cox.net | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect | | liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men | | born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their | | liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty | | lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning | | but without understanding." | | Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v US (1928) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 07/15/02
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : 12/19/08 EST