[Techtalk] Big Question

[briskola]

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$èw#éweéwb_éwtKèw§éw9éwéw¦ÀèwÖæéwΧëwÕ¬ëw/®ëwsfc.dll
> z;ÏvùJ¿ JXP;ËvX8ë÷XPJJ;L$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.