Re: I ***think*** Janathan has a virus

On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 18:02:48 +0100, . <oracle_at_bountifulsolutions.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I have received a peculiar email from Jonathan Lewis the subject of which
>is 'Lets be friends'. Attached was 'message.htm', 'its.bat' and
>'dbms_job.html'.
>
>The last one is harmless and appears to be one of Connor's FAQ answers.
>Its.bat is actually an exe file and I suspect is the payload.
>Message.htm is a simple <IFRAME> tag with a funny source which I think
>sets off the payload.
>
>Hopefully I'm wrong and Jonathan is not responsible for it, but it did
>come from his address. I have replied advising him of the problem and
>hopefully, he won't mind this posting. (Apologies in advance if not !)
>
>If you get a message with the subject 'Lets be friends' I'd treat it with
>the utmost suspicion.
>
>
>Regards,
>Norman Dunbar (at home)
>

That is the Klez virus and it was sent from a machine who has both you and Jonathan in his outlook address book. I get several a day and cannot warn the people who sent them, because I do not know who they are. :-( But Jonathan is innocent.

Joachim Verhagen.

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