RE: Strange and very small email - new virus

Hi all,

We are receiving similar emails...

My Outlook reads the attachment as 91 bytes.

When you extract the attachment however, it shrinks to 2 bytes.
When opened in Notepad, there is no data inside.

It is very strange, as I can't see how a virus like this would spread -
even if it is a failed attempt at writing a virus, there must be another
part to it which is distributing the emails....

Anyone have any ideas?

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: jiggly@janottaherner.com [mailto:jiggly@janottaherner.com] 
Sent: 26 July 2005 19:36
To: focus-virus@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Strange and very small email - new virus

Yes, we have gotten about 2 of these types of emails.  The file is a
named 1.txt (61 Bytes in size) and the email subject is "1".  We are a
company with about 35 email addresses under our domain and have received
viruses through some of them in the past.  This strange email has come
to 2 of our accounts - 1 last week and 1 today.  I got one today and did
a google search which led me to this site.  Very odd since the
attachment seems to have no virus payload which you would expect for
such a strange email.