[Techtalk] Big Question

[Andrew]

	Well,Well,Well, in all my years I have never actually "seen" a viri. My
Mac's all have had a checker, is it time to get a Linux Viri checker?
	Any recomendations?

	I deleted the message from Sylpheed. Next time how do I "expose" the
headers.

	Andrew

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:36:17 +0100
briskola <briskola at svinje.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 November 2002 09:22, Andrew wrote:
> >  Hi All,
> >
> > 	I recieved this e-mail (below) along with a 157K attachment. It
> > 	was
> > addressed to and the return the address, was my address, but with a
> > different name. I have no idea who this is, nor did I reply as it
> > sems it would only reply to me.
> > 	The attachment MIME type is;
> > 	 multipart/alternative	795B
> > 	 text/html		657B
> > 	 audio/xwav		157.1 README.EXE
> >
> > 	This is a sample of what was in the attachment....
> > áfkÉã / èÿÿÿ ýÿÿÿ×EÐ ýÿÿèýÿÿPQU¨ÿÜ@   ÿÿÿ\@ MÈÿ,@ MÔÿ,@ Mìÿ,@ 
> > MØJ¹¥@ Mäÿ0@ &á®÷ç0ÞÆø3¯yëã±A¤N·q®§öúôÙö)Ö
> > éwéwQüèwêw<éwÔèwÊKèw$èw#éweéwb_éwtKèw§éw9éwéw¦ÀèwÖæéwΧëwÕ¬ëw/®ëwsf
> > c.dll z;ÏvùJ¿ JXP;ËvX8ë÷XPJJ;L$r
> >
> >
> > 		Can anyone tell me what this is?
> 
> Well, it seems like a classic virus. To find out where it really came
> from, you should look at the extended headers, where there should be
> the originating IP.