Re: "GZG-L" spam/virii?

For what it's worth, it's likely the new version of Beagle.AG that came
out 
today.	Symantec (www.symantec.com) has a removal tool (in case you're 
gullible enough to double click and open it!) and the latest intelligent

updater has virus defs, though they don't seem to work on an actively 
infected machine.

Most of the ones I've seen today have a subject line of "Re:".

Let's be careful out there.
:)

John

--On Monday, July 19, 2004 10:29 PM -0700 Brian Burger 
<yh728@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:

> Very interesting - I just got email supposedly from the list with a
file
> called "fish.com" attached; I'm certain that's a virus!
>
> I'm safe - telnetting from my well-secured PC into an
even-better-secured
> Solaris/UNIX network is how I get my email - but some folks might want
to
> watch their inboxes & virii checkers if a spammer/virus has hold of
the
> GZG-L address.
>
> If our friendly list-admin wants me to forward the msg. to them w/
> extended headers I can; not that I think it'll do much good. Ex.
headers
> say it came from a mindspring.com addy, with an obviously spoofed
> username.
>
> All that talk about what to do with spammers a few days ago - let's
add
> virus breeders to that group! I might be in favour of the death
penalty
> after all... :)
>
> --
> Brian
> http://warbard.port5.com/games.html
>

John K. Lerchey
Computer and Network Security Coordinator
Carnegie Mellon University

lerchey@andrew.cmu.edu