This is just the SirCam trojan knocking. Pretty bad trojan in not only
does it send itself to everyone on your Outlook list (knowing your
computer skills, I know you wouldn't be caught dead with M$ products
like that) as well as it send a random file from your system as an
attachment. Apparently someone has you on a mailing list (admirers?).
A lot of people have been hit. Not just being infected, but have
attachments being sent to them. I know of one person that has had over
1.1 gig of files sent to him in the recent few weeks.

http://www.f-secure.fi/v-descs/sircam.shtml


I surely hope that you would not open an attachment from someone that
can't even write a decent sentence, of course that would exclude much
of techdiver.

Just use a decent firewall, decent virus software (norton scans all my
incoming mail), and don't open attachments, even from people you know.

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:58:07 -0400, you wrote:

>
>I got two suspicious emails from
>
>   bbkaybaker [bbaker@ec*.rr*.co*]
>
>-- someone whom I do not know - the messages were directed to my email
>address, though, not a list (I don't think)
>
>the subject headings were:
>   Phillip Galloway   (on the first message)
>   LOT 4 PURVIANCE    (on the second message)
>
>both of the message bodies said :
>
>   Hi! How are you?
>
>   I send you this file in order to have your advice
>
>   See you later. Thanks
>
>
>There were 2 attached files:  one ATT00028.dat (174 KB) and one ATT00031.txt
>(59 B).
>
>I opened the .txt file to see if it said anything and it was blank so I got
>freaked.  Does anyone know if this is a virus?  I also double-clicked the
>message to open it and view the email address, but never opened the .dat
>file.
>
>Sorry for the off-topic post, but there seems to be a lot off topic posts
>going around lately anyway, and if it were a virus I would suspect this
>would be of concern for others as well.
>
>thanks,
>--pina
>
>
>
>
>Subscription/removal requests to WernerChris@ms*.co*.
>
>
>
> 
>
>Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 
>
>


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