[Klug-general] Junk email hoax with virus

Karl Buckland karl at digital-end.com
Fri May 11 09:57:39 BST 2007


Did anyone else receive the email below?

It came with an attached zip file containing a worm. Amusingly it'll be 
harmless to almost all of us running Linux, but hopefully nobody running 
widows on the list would fall for it anyway...

-- 
Karl Buckland
www.digital-end.com

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Subject: [Klug-general] delivery failed
From: "Returned mail" <postmaster at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:46:07 +0200
To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk

Dear user of mailman.lug.org.uk,

We have detected that your account was used to send a huge amount of 
junk e-mail messages during the last week.
Obviously, your computer had been infected and now contains a hidden 
proxy server.

We recommend that you follow our instructions in the attached text file 
in order to keep your computer safe.

Have a nice day,
mailman.lug.org.uk user support team.




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