[sdiy] [OT] PSA: List Member Virus Alert

[Joachim Backhaus]

Hi,

the same happened in the last days at the music-dsp
mailing list. After that the owner of that list
disabled attachments and said that links to
web content should be used instead of attachments.

Regards
Joachim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Gravenhorst [mailto:music.maker at gte.net]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2002 08:39
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: [sdiy] [OT] PSA: List Member Virus Alert
> 
> 
> I received an infector attachment in an email
> with (some) header lines of:
> 
> From: "Jay A Kolaric" <_jay_kolaric at bigpond.com>
> Subject: Re: Re: [sdiy] 555 vco success
> 
> The attachment was named "DOCS.DOS.PIF", which is
> highly suspect in and of itself.  The email contained
> no text message.
> 
> I wrote my own email system, so this did not affect me, 
> however I looked at the file with some binary tools
> and it is definately an executable which possibly
> attempts to manipulate several Windoze kernel files as
> well as winsock.dll and some registry entries.
> 
> Sorry for the interruption in SDIY talk, please continue...
> 
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