[Preston] strange e-mail (virus?) problem -- any ideas?

[Richard Wellstead]

Hi,

 Its a virus. I get several a day with a .pif (actually a Windows exe 
file) attached, disguised as various files. I've even had ones from me 
according to the sender address! If you run linux, there is no problem 
at all as you probably guessed.

Richard

On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 21:41, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:
> 'ellow,
>
> I don't konw if this is related to my membership to this list but I
> keep getting some very strange e-mails (5 in about 2 days so far)
> that profess to be people like "mailman-owner@mailman.lug.org.uk" and
> "datpoland@uclan.ac.uk" but seem to be actually coming from
> "evansrawmarsh@blueyonder.co.uk".  They are all completely blank but
> appear to have an attachment.  The attachment is a windows .pif file
> disguised as a MIDI file, all encoded in base64.  Presumably this is
> an exploit of the auto-preview `feature' of Outlook Express.
>
> As far as I'm aware, none of the above are in my address book and I
> am using Linux full time so I very much hope its not originating from
> me - it doesn't look as if I'm sending random stuff to the list.  I
> hope I am not!
>
> You can probably tell I am not too familiar with e-mail.  I've tried
> to get as much as I can understand (as described above) out of the
> headers.  I was wondering if any of you have recieved these e-mails -
> if so at least I know where they may be originating from.
>
> thanks, bye just now,