[TheForge] OT Computer question

[Dave Brown]

At 19:49 03/09/03 -0600, you wrote:
>I just returned to my desk after having been gone for several days to
>find a returned mail message that I never sent.  This sounds
>suspiciously like a virus delivery ruse.  The attachments are 88.5 kB
>SuperBender and 9.7 kB ATT00020.txt and the recipient was a
>sos@alum.mit.edu, an address that I am vaguely familiar with, but not in
>my address book.  Anyone out there who has had a similar message?  My
>Norton Anti virus did not react to it.

Steven,

I can't tell you anything about the attachment, but the address is a 
current subscriber to theforge.  It appears to be an address associated 
with MIT's alumni.  It's a .txt file attached and I would GUESS that if you 
opened it with notepad or wordpad it would be safe.  I don't think either 
of these Windows utilities will execute any hidden viruses.  But maybe 
you'd better stay safe and reply to sos@alum.mit.edu to see if he sent you 
something and what it is first.  If you find it's a spoofed address then 
trash the file.  Better safe than sorry.


Dave Brown
Heritage Smithing
Green Bay, WI
ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG