Weird EMail Q. - 2004-02-06 - By Matthew
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Hi Kris,
The email is almost definately not from Caligari. For a couple of
reasons:
1) Caligari doesn't send emails out from truespace@(protected)
2) Caligari doesn't send attachments in their emails to customers unless
they specifically said they would do so before.
3) There is no point for Caligari to send you a unidentified .scr file
(.scr files are windows screensavers, which just happens to be a favored way
for virus writers to spread their viruses).
4) There's been a increase in the number of these viruses spreading
recently, keep your virus scanner updated :)
-mattam
"tsrumors.. like the ocean breeze"
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Kris" <pterochromics@(protected)>
To: <truespace@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: [TSML] Weird EMail Q. -
> Hi, I received an email from "truespace@(protected)", the body
> said: The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has
> been sent as a binary attachment." THe attachment is named "message.zip",
> and the file inside the zip is called "message.scr".
>
> I'm not getting any header info showing up.
> Roman or anyone, is this legitimate? I seem to remember that *.scr files
> can hold viruses, so, I'm wondering whether the message is legit and safe
> to opn (but what *is* an SCR file...?), or whether someone is onl;y
> pretending to be from Caligari.
>
> ((I didn't just reply to it because, if it is someone just pretending to
be
> Caligari, they'd just fool me again, so I figured I'd ask y'all...))
>
> Thanks for your patience and any clues (since I have none =;-o !)
>
> - Kris
>
>
>
> - Kris M. Krieger
> http://www.pterochromics.com
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