[sdiy] Virus

[Glen]

At 02:22 AM 1/18/02 , John L Marshall wrote:
>The virus is identified as W32/BadTrans at MM . It was sent by someone
>identified as Michael Bradley with the following return
>mbradleysbox at hotmail.com
>
>The virus is an attachment in the form of ??????.TXT.pif
>

I got one from him also. Mine was named "fun.pif" and I didn't open it. I
simply deleted it.

I don't use Outlook Express, so hopefully it didn't do any damage to my system.
Some of the newer attacks exploit a weakness in Outlook Express, and don't even
need for the attachment to be opened, in order to wreak havoc.

However, I did notice that Michael Bradley uses Outlook Express. At this point,
he probably wishes he didn't.


later,
Glen