full-disclosure - new virus or variant

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From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne)
Subject: new virus or variant

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Vic Vandal wrote:

> There's a new .ZIP attachment that mimics some of the recent ones
> in arriving as something like your.name@...ain.zip, extracting to
> your.name@...ain.com, which is a Windows command file.
>

	[SNIP]

Nothing new about this, virus attachments have been doing this for
sometime now, you just must have been lucky in not having seen these till
now.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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