FW: [at-l] Possible Virus?

[jbkramer@afn.org (Bryan Kramer)]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Kramer [mailto:jbkramer@afn.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 17:17
To: 'RoksnRoots@aol.com'
Subject: RE: [at-l] Possible Virus?



Sounds like W32.Badtrans to me, it alters the return address on infected
mail. Now for the bad news, you can get Badtrans without openning the
attachment so you better run an up to date antivirus program on your
system ASAP. There has just been a flood of virus, worms and trojans
lately. I am getting 4 to 8 trojan attacks a week over the last few
months and have been getting up to 10 or more Badtrans infected mails a
day. You really need to run a personal firewall and antivirus, try
www.grc.org steve gibson has a link to a free firewall.

Bryan
> -----Original Message-----
> 
>    I have received several attachment e-mails with bait
> questions about ATML 
> from ATL recently. I don't ever open any attached e-mails 
> from strangers, so 
> I don't know what was in them. What makes me suspicious is 
> both times I sent 
> a reply telling them so and got a mailer-demon response 
> saying no such 
> address existed. So, I assume this was a trojan horse virus 
> intended for me. 
> I know very little about this sort of thing, so I can only speculate, 
> however, I assume the bait questions were deliberate and not from an 
> automatic virus address 'raid and send'. Therefore, I assume it was 
> intentional and aimed. Or was it a real e-mail?