Hi all, I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but it seems our mail system has detected a virus in this message posted to the mailing list?
Or what do others see when looking at this message?
Michael
"Jerome E. Garcia" wrote:
**** WARNING **** WARNING **** WARNING **** WARNING ****
A virus was detected in this message and the part(s) of the message which were infected have been automatically deleted.
DO NOT resend the message until the virus infection has been removed up from your PC or the infected content will be deleted again.
The virus name was VBS/FreeLink
Have fun with these links. Bye.
Name: LINKS.VBSLINKS.VBS Type: application/x-unknown-content-type-vbsfile Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi all, I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but it seems our mail system has detected a virus in this message posted to the mailing list?
Or what do others see when looking at this message?
It's clearly doing something that's not quite right. It writes several things to the Registry, sends out at least 2 emails, and writes several files.
Sound like a virus to me. Thank goodness I only use *nix boxes :-)
Michael Rueger wrote:
Hi all, I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but it seems our mail system has detected a virus in this message posted to the mailing list?
Or what do others see when looking at this message?
When I look at this message I see a silly "worm" written in Basic. Here is the "meat" of it:
A13.Subject = B("Bidbj!uihr") A13.Body = B("I`wd!gto!vhui!uidrd!mhojr/") & Chr(13) & Chr(10) & B("Cxd/") A13.Attachments.Add WScript.ScriptFullName A13.DeleteAfterSubmit = True A13.Send
Where the B function is a stupid crypto routine (hopefully not illegal to export ;-) to make reading the program harder. A13 is an email to be sent to one of your friends (or this list) as found in your address books.
The way the program quotes itself in order to save a copy to disk for later use as an attachment (third line above) isn't particularly interesting.
I found this very offensive - any viruses on this list should be written in Squeak (or Python, at the very least!), don't you think?
-- Jecel
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