New Horizons in spam and virii

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Dana Blankenhorn <dana () a-clue com>
Date: August 9, 2004 3:51:39 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: New Horizons in spam and virii

I remember last week's thread on spoofing, which started with your 
complaint
about someone taking your name in vain.

Well, here's a new one.

This one just came in "from" one of my e-mail addresses, addressed "to" 
the
other one. As I may have mentioned, I've generally blacklisted myself
because I'm so often spoofed.

A quick glance with Mailwasher showed that, had this gotten into Outlook
Express, it would have displayed a picture called "joasqfnhjt.bmp" and 
then
initiated a file called "Readme.zip" that looks nasty indeed.

Following is the complete header. The moral is "Be Very Careful Out 
There."

Note that the "Vickybrazel.org" domain doesn't exist.

Return-Path: <danablankenhorn () mindspring com>
Received: from VICKYBRAZEL.org ([216.151.44.14])
        by a-clue.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i79JgY900748
        for <dana () a-clue com>; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:42:35 -0600
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:47:57 -0600
To: "Dana" <dana () a-clue com>
From: "Danablankenhorn" <danablankenhorn () mindspring com>
Subject: Re: Document
Message-ID: <hqtthcpjpiyfvkijxyn () a-clue com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
        boundary="--------lgwwxmsenvleqajvlwwe"
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.9 required=5.0
        tests=HTML_30_40,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_02,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY
        version=2.52
X-Spam-Level: **
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.52 (1.174.2.8-2003-03-24-exp)
X-UIDL: L9M!!#[=!!pSO!!C+G"!
Status: U

(P.S. -- I've also gotten several copies of an unidentified virus that 
says
"new price" - the payload has the name price.zip or price2.zip.)

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