Re: New virus?

[<travis.abrams () hklaw com>]

Are you seeing any attachments in these emails? Have you submitted it to any of the virus vendors?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Shein <shoten () starpower net>
To: 'incident' <incidents () securityfocus com>
Sent: Fri Mar 19 17:44:08 2004
Subject: New virus?

I'm seeing a lot of something here, and luckily our filters seem to be
stopping it with heuristics; it's being quarantined, but it's not identified
as any particular virus. I'm seeing emails to people who would normally be
getting security-related mails (like SANS bulletins, etc.) and subject lines
of such notifications...except that the vulnerabilities listed in the emails
are from last year, and in ever case it's a forwarded or replied to email
subject (starting with "FW:" or "RE:").  I'm wondering if there's a virus
that goes through someone's "Sent Mail" and takes recipients/subjects to
produce credible email appearances.  Has anyone else been seeing this, and
if so, do you have any more information?


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