Re: A great Shockwave flash movie

From: Messler, Gerald E. (GEMESSLER@STTHOMAS.EDU)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 15:50:43 CST

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Date:         Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:50:43 -0600
From: "Messler, Gerald E." <mailto:GEMESSLER@STTHOMAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: A great Shockwave flash movie
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

    <pre> The University of St. Thomas strips "exe" files from ALL incoming mail. The recipients are automatically notified.

    Gerry Messler Research Analyst Institutional Research & Planning University of St Thomas 2115 Summit Ave AQU-330 St Paul, MN 55105-1096 phone: 651-962-6623 fax: 651-962-6626

    -----Original Message----- From: Larry Wentzel [mailto:mailto:lrw5@PSU.EDU] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 3:30 PM To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: Re: A great Shockwave flash movie

    >ATTENTION: This file, creative.exe, contains a VIRUS. DO NO RUN THIS
    >PROGRAM.
    >When it is run, it finds and alters all .JPG and .ZIP files on your system,
    >adding the suffix: "change atleast now to LINUX" and moves these renamed
    files
    >to your root directory. Subsequently, the worm sends a copy of itself to
    >everyone in your email address book.
    >
    >Allison Zhang wrote:
    >
    > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
    > >
    > > ------=_NextPart_000_0063_01C05E04.66CE2540
    > > Content-Type: text/plain;
    > > charset="iso-8859-1"
    > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    > >
    > > Check out this new flash movie that I downloaded just now ... It's Great
    > > Bye
    > >
    > > ------=_NextPart_000_0063_01C05E04.66CE2540
    > > Content-Type: application/x-msdownload;
    > > name="creative.exe"
    > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
    > > Content-Disposition: attachment;
    > > filename="creative.exe"
    > >
    > >
    >
    TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    > >
    >
    AAAAuAAAAA4fug4AtAnNIbgBTM0hVGhpcyBwcm9ncmFtIGNhbm5vdCBiZSBydW4gaW4gRE9TIG1v

    I can't speak for the rest of you, but I didn't receive the flash movie/virus attachment with that e-mail. I did get a useless string of characters included in the message itself, but nothing else. I'm scanning my drives for viruses just to be certain...

    --Larry Wentzel
    --Digital Preservation Scanning Technician
    --Penn State University Libraries

    </pre>

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