Re: maybe this should be on sec focus but.

[Patrick_McAllister () WASHGAS COM]

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MIMAIL.A




                                                                                                                        
           
                      Forrest Houston                                                                                   
           
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That's funny, I had atleast one person here receive a similar email which
was forwarded on to me.  I ran it through McAfee (4.5.1 engine, 4.0.4280
DAT) and it picked it right up (Trojan Name: Exploit-Code Base
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=99383).
Potentially it's a different incident than what they are talking about but
the admin@domainname and the attachment are similar (it was a zip file
containing an html file [according to the extensions]).

Forrest

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Drew Weaver wrote:

>             I have had like 4 users call and tell me that they're
receiving
> email from admin@ourdomainname with a unidentified attachment, possibly a
> worm that exploits the new Microsoft vulnerability last week, all 4 of
these
> people reported that their updated this morning antivirus software missed
> it.
>
>
>
> FYI.