[Wolves] Warning: E-mail viruses detected

Steve Crozier wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Aug 22 10:58:37 2003


On Friday 22 Aug 2003 10:40 am, Jono Bacon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is this? I have had 44 messages that have been
> caught by the spam filter weith 100k asttachments -
> how can I stop this?

i'm not sure how you stop it. Its the latest virus, i believe fools who open 
the .pif attatchment trigger it to email all their contacts, and it also uses 
the computer as a relay for sending out spam to loads of other people from 
your address.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32443.html

ste