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Thomas Richard
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 Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 5:09 am Post subject:
Virus warning
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We received an e-mail from maple-list@scg.uwaterloo.ca (most probably a
fake) with subject "hello" and body
"The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary
attachment."
The attached file is named message.zip and contains only message.scr,
a screensaver executable under Windows.
Our virus scanner did not issue a warning, but nevertheless this is most
probably malware.
If you received the same or a similar e-mail, do not start this program.
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Thomas Richard
Maple Support
Scientific Computers GmbH
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Robert B. Israel
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Re: Virus warning
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In article <428c3a25.139616267@news.individual.de>,
Thomas Richard <t.richard@scientific.de> wrote:
You can probably tell whether it's really from maple-list by looking at
the last Received: line in the header rather than the From: line.
Robert Israel israel@math.ubc.ca
Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel
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Thomas Richard
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Re: Virus warning
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israel@math.ubc.ca (Robert Israel) wrote:
| Quote: | You can probably tell whether it's really from maple-list by looking at
the last Received: line in the header rather than the From: line.
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Many thanks for the hint. The header looks okay to me, but AFAIK, the
MUG mailing list is no longer in operation, and the mail content reminds
me of the usual mails with malware attachments.
I will forward it our specialist for further investigation.
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Thomas Richard
Maple Support
Scientific Computers GmbH
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