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Re: Warning -- new, noxious spam message.

1997-10-22 15:09:34
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

The Spam was titled something like "you're a winner!", letting you
know that you've won some contest. To find out the details, they
enclose a Gzipped binary that you need to unpack and execute... 

There's a switch.  Potentially, this is an email virus which could
actually do naughty things to your system.  My guess is that most
users who are sophisticated enough to unpack and execute the file are
bright enough to not run executables from very suspicious sources.


- murr -


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