[Comphelp] New Virus Gimmick?

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:44:39 -0500

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Has anyone seen this cute trick?  On 02/02/04, I received a "Postmaster 
Delivery Failure Notice" from "postmaster@ugo.com."  I looked inside and 
saw an addressee I never heard of and ignored the message.  Some days 
later, I received a similar "Failure" notice with another unknown 
addressee.  Annoyed, I immediately deleted it, but started to smell a 
rat.  I went back to the original and read the copy of the "rejected" 
mail.  It was sent to "john@ugo.com" with a return path of 
"tonyb@writeme.com" (me). The text read "The message contains Unicode 
characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.  It had an attachment 
labeled "Quarantined Attachment.txt" with an Xed out attachment icon.  I 
think my ISP caught the virus, because my Norton doesn't show it having any 
quarantined items.  I deleted the attachment from my Eudora "Attach" folder 
just in case it wasn't really quarantined.

Any ideas out there as to what's happening here?

=;-}) Tony Biegen {:-})
Voice/FAX: (516) 797-0464
EMail: tonyb@writeme.com
<||:-)) "Do not follow where the path may lead -- go instead where there is 
no path and leave a trail."   Muriel Strode

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Has anyone seen this cute trick?&nbsp; On 02/02/04, I received a
&quot;Postmaster Delivery Failure Notice&quot; from
&quot;postmaster@ugo.com.&quot;&nbsp; I looked inside and saw an
addressee I never heard of and ignored the message.&nbsp; Some days
later, I received a similar &quot;Failure&quot; notice with another
unknown addressee.&nbsp; Annoyed, I immediately deleted it, but started
to smell a rat.&nbsp; I went back to the original and read the copy of
the &quot;rejected&quot; mail.&nbsp; It was sent to
&quot;john@ugo.com&quot; with a return path of
&quot;tonyb@writeme.com&quot; (me). The text read &quot;The
message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary
attachment.&nbsp; It had an attachment labeled &quot;Quarantined
Attachment.txt&quot; with an Xed out attachment icon.&nbsp; I think my
ISP caught the virus, because my Norton doesn't show it having any
quarantined items.&nbsp; I deleted the attachment from my Eudora
&quot;Attach&quot; folder just in case it wasn't really
quarantined. 
Any ideas out there as to what's happening here? 
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=3D;-}) Tony Biegen {:-})&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
Voice/FAX: (516) 797-0464 
EMail:
tonyb@writeme.com 
&lt;||:-)) &quot;Do not follow where the path may lead -- go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Muriel
Strode 
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