All -
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. It's a PC binary,
so us Mac users are relatively safe from this specific one, but...
If this is true, it's certainly dangerous.
If not true, the story itself
could turn into another flurry of spam like the "good times" virus hoax.
And the only solution is: delete anything containing an attachment
which is sent to you from an unknown source. I include in this rule
any and all messages from any and all mailing lists (including this
one) given that no one should be sending attachments to lists.
randy
Randy Banks (randy(_at_)essex(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk) tel: +44
(0)1206 873067
ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change fax: +44 (0)1206 873151
University of Essex, Colchester, Essex
United Kingdom CO4 3SQ