[lug] ... is there a virus afflicting this list ??? ...

[Brian Jarrett]

There is a new version of Bagle out... Bagle.B

Spoofed from addresses most likely...

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Calvin Dodge [mailto:caldodge at fpcc.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:50 PM
To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
Subject: Re: [lug] ... is there a virus afflicting this list ??? ...

bill ehlert wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> i just got three msgs alleging to come
> from this list.
> 
>     each 18k in size
> 
>     each with a file attached
> 
>     each with a subject line something like:
> 
>       [lug] xxxxxxx... yy
> 
>     where the x's are 11 random alpha characters
>     and the y's  --  uh, i forget.
> 
> 
>   anybody have any ideas???

Well, I threw one of the messages against Mom's Clamav filter, and it
says 
"VIRUS!"  The same is probably true of the other messages.

FWIW, one message came from a computer at ibm.com, while the others were

apparently from residential broadband users (ionsky.com and Verizon
DSL0.

Calvin

-- 
Calvin Dodge
Certified Linux Bigot (tm)
http://www.caldodge.fpcc.net


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