Is someone harvesting email addresses for Spam or a future targetted attack?
You are seeing the non bounced successful guesses?
Stiennon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph (Joe) Lynn <Joe.Lynn@tiniusolsen.co.uk>
To: jiggly@janottaherner.com <jiggly@janottaherner.com>;
focus-virus@securityfocus.com <focus-virus@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Wed Jul 27 01:15:15 2005
Subject: 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.
