I got one of these directly to my address this morning. I'm running PINE under AIX so it was harmless to me. I downloaded the BAT file and it looked like it was empty... (0 bytes) But I'm certainly not up on the hacker tricks so I would not say its harmless to everyone.
Ben
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Jo�o Miguel Pais wrote:
Dear List,
During the last days automatic-opening-messages composed of an html file and a .bat file (which is tried to open automatically whenever the message is selected) have arrived at me though this list (and of course to the others), and also directly to my address. I wanted to ask if these messages are safe, as I suspect them being loaded with viruses ready to eat my system (although norton didn't detected nothing), since they come from addresses not common to the list, and this kind of "abusive" format (which tries to open the files automatically) was also not normal so far. The last one was today, the data is after this:
Jo�o Miguel Pais
----- Original Message ----- From: "msp" msp@ucsd.edu To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 7:07 AM Subject: Re:please try again