[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...
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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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