Weird EMail Q. - 2004-02-06 - By Kent Burkhead
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Hi,
I am a lurker on the list. What you describe is the way the new worm
making it's way around gets you to open the attachment. If it were me I
would
delete it without opening. Do you have an anti-virus program?
Kent
> [Original Message]
> From: Kris <pterochromics@(protected)>
> To: <truespace@(protected)>
> Date: 2/6/2004 2:11:09 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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