Hi All,
Ray & Steve have issued an important warning
I've received several of these every few days, for several weeks now.
The subject varies, the body is stereotypic. As Ray wrote,
it seems as if you know the person "Hi, how are you? I send you this
file for your advice. See you later." I opened the 1st attachment but
fortunately my virus checker (F-prot) jumped in smartly & deleted the
attached worm-virus instantly. I replied to the sender but this just
bounced ("mailbox full"). I don't know any of the senders.
Isn't it sad that the Global Village has become a global Cess-pool??
The more "connected" you are, the greater the risk, it would seem.
Practise safe email: Take care.
Stan
> From: "ray hester" <rhester@jaguar1.usouthal.edu>
> To: Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu>
> Subject: Infected attachment?
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:27:43 -0500
> [ Coordinator's note: This is the Sircam virus. It looks for addresses to send itself
> [ to by looking in the victim's address book, but also looking in the victim's
> [ internet cache, looking for email addresses on web pages that have been
> [ visited.
> [
> [ The line "I send you this file in order to have your advice" is a
> [ dead giveaway, and the attachment should be deleted. If you try to
> [ open it, you'll be the one sending them as well as receiving them.
> [
> [ While that message is by far the most common, at least in the United States,
> [ the virus can use several other short messages. Please be careful
> [ about what you open.
> [
> [ Presumably this victim can't get any more mail because his address has been
shut down
> [ until he can get his computer cleaned, but any of you at med.penn.edu who know
> [ him might want to check up and make sure he's gotten the word.
> [
> [ Steve
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>
> I send this out in case others are receiving the same messages.
>
> Over the last couple of days I've received several messages from 'Sandeep
> Vansal' whose return e-mail address is indicated as
> 'svansal@mail.med.upenn.edu' , but trying to reply you get a 'following
> address had permanent fatal errors, reason: can't create (user) output
> file'.
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> The e-mail subject lines have been variously:
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> 'Resig-AJ'
> 'Immuno-404'
> 'protein assay 4-20-00'
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> The e-mail always has an attachment indicated which I haven't opened for
> obvious reasons.
>
> The message is always:
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> "Hi! How are you?
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> I send you this file inorder to have your advice.
>
> See you later. Thanks."
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> To my knowledge I don't know a 'Sandeep Vansal' (but at my age, I could
> easily have forgotten perhaps a past acquaintance!).
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> I searched the U. Penn site for this name and found no trace.
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> It's probably nothing, but you never know.
>
> Ray Hester
> rhester@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
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