WARNING " VIRUS ALERT"

[****TOMMY BROWN*****]

LATEST NEWS FROM MSNBS

Antivirus firms have issued warnings about a tricky new malicious program
which arrives as an e-mail that claims recipients' e-mail accounts "will be
expiring." That menacing message has apparently duped many Internet users
into opening the attached file, Message.zip. Just hours after its discovery,
most antivirus firms rated the worm a medium risk. The virus appears to be
an attempt to harvest e-mail addresses, and may have been initially
distributed as a spam mail, experts say.

AUG,2,2003

[John Liebson]

On 2/8/2003 11:50, ****TOMMY BROWN***** wrote:

> LATEST NEWS FROM MSNBS
>
> Antivirus firms have issued warnings about a tricky new malicious program
> which arrives as an e-mail that claims recipients' e-mail accounts "will be
> expiring." That menacing message has apparently duped many Internet users
> into opening the attached file, Message.zip. Just hours after its discovery,
> most antivirus firms rated the worm a medium risk. The virus appears to be
> an attempt to harvest e-mail addresses, and may have been initially
> distributed as a spam mail, experts say.
>
> AUG,2,2003
>
>
My ISP alerted its customers about one such, which purported to come
from Los Alamos National Laboratories. The ISP's spam-catcher was
already at work trapping this "cute" e-mail.

I think the e-mail was just another bomb from the labs....

[CWatters]

I tried to submit a copy of "message.zip" to SARC but was told that it
wasn't infected. Norton Antivirus detected it for me though so I guess it's
known.


"John Liebson" > wrote in message
...
> On 2/8/2003 11:50, ****TOMMY BROWN***** wrote:
>
> > LATEST NEWS FROM MSNBS
> >
> > Antivirus firms have issued warnings about a tricky new malicious
program
> > which arrives as an e-mail that claims recipients' e-mail accounts "will
be
> > expiring." That menacing message has apparently duped many Internet
users
> > into opening the attached file, Message.zip. Just hours after its
discovery,
> > most antivirus firms rated the worm a medium risk. The virus appears to
be
> > an attempt to harvest e-mail addresses, and may have been initially
> > distributed as a spam mail, experts say.
> >
> > AUG,2,2003
> >
> >
> My ISP alerted its customers about one such, which purported to come
> from Los Alamos National Laboratories. The ISP's spam-catcher was
> already at work trapping this "cute" e-mail.
>
> I think the e-mail was just another bomb from the labs....
>