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New Virus?


From: "Hamish Stanaway" <koremeltdown () hotmail com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:41:49 +0000

Hey there everyone,

I recieved a mysterious email this morning at 1728 GMT which had headers as follows:

Return-path: <hamish1 () voyager co nz>
Envelope-to: hamish1 () webhosting net nz
Delivery-date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 05:22:44 +1200
Received: from [217.125.252.60] (helo=david.org)
        by fearless.absolutewebhosting.biz with smtp (Exim 4.24)
        id 1DmxJg-0003ou-Rg
        for hamish1 () webhosting net nz; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 05:22:41 +1200
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:20:42 +0100
To: "Hamish" <hamish1 () webhosting net nz>
From: "Hamish" <hamish1 () voyager co nz>
Subject: The picture is sent on SMS
Message-ID: <pvkpnopcnwraqblcgfg () webhosting net nz>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
       boundary="--------hukvuvgobciyuhmojdug"

-------------------- END SNIP-----------------------

As you can guess, I'm hamish1 () webhosting net nz.
This email contained no text, only an attachment called legs.zip, which Norton (fully updated to its' latest version and data files) did not detect any viruses in. Within the legs.zip file there is a file called ds-rwe.exe - this again was not detected as a virus. My girlfriend thought she would be smart and ran ds-rwe.exe, which gave me a memory overflow message for explorer.exe immidiately. Does anyone have any idea of what this might be, and also if it is a virus that has already been identified? If not, I am willing to pass it through to someone to take a look at in its' zip format. Otherwise if the effects cannot be reversed, I am afraid I will have to reformat this machine *sigh* NOT AGAIN :(
Have a great day everyone and thanks in advance for your help.


Kindest of regards,

Hamish Stanaway, CEO

Absolute Web Hosting / -= KoRe WoRkS =- Internet Security
Auckland, New Zealand

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