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Re: PS: FirstClass installations an exploit target?


From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:12:29 -0400

On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:37:04 EDT, James H Moore said:

I should have mentioned that it carries an attachment
important-details.zip which our spam/virus gateway stripped before it
got to FirstClass.

Not a FirstClass issue at all, I suspect.  It's one of the many worm variants
that say the "Your <victim.domain> account was used to send spam", to entice
you to open the .zip (which is the malware/worm payload).

We can tell when a new variant has popped up that we don't have filters for,
because we get stuff signed 'The vt.edu admin team' that we didn't send. ;)

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