[TheForge] OT Computer question

Sun Mar 9 22:26:01 2003

I've written Steven back. News to me, sounds like some kind of virus. 
Both Steven and I use Norton.

Steve Smith
[email protected]

Dave Brown wrote:
> 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
>> [email protected], 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 [email protected] 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
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