[Gllug] Virus or worm?

Simon Bunker sibunks at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 27 12:56:51 UTC 2001


I'm on win 2000 through Outlook Express using Hotmail (yup I like living
dangerously ;o) and I think this may have been sent to me, but as it wasn't
sent directly it just went straight to Hotmail's bulk mail folder - of
course payload undelivered.

Simon
http://www.rendermania.com/
UIN 11123737

> Hmm, it says that sircam has its own smtp engine, that means that possibly
> whatever server sent it is possibly and infected client?
>
> bredroll
>
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Robert Wood wrote:
>
> > <SNIP>
> > > have infected so well. I hear from my sister-in-law (who I
> > > haven't yet managed to wean off Hotmail (although this may
> > > have changed her mind)) that their built in virus checking
> > > completely missed it, and continued to miss it for a long
> > > after it was recognised.
> > </SNIP>
> >
> > Re the hotmail point read about it at the register;
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/20642.html
> >


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