Re: Strange and very small email - new virus
"Richard Stiennon" <[email protected]>
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Is someone harvesting email addresses for Spam or a future targetted attack? You are seeing the non bounced successful guesses? Stiennon -------------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld -----Original Message----- From: Joseph (Joe) Lynn <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Wed Jul 27 01:15:15 2005 Subject: RE: Strange and very small email - new virus Hi all, We are receiving similar emails... My Outlook reads the attachment as 91 bytes. When you extract the attachment however, it shrinks to 2 bytes. When opened in Notepad, there is no data inside. It is very strange, as I can't see how a virus like this would spread - even if it is a failed attempt at writing a virus, there must be another part to it which is distributing the emails.... Anyone have any ideas? Joe -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 26 July 2005 19:36 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Strange and very small email - new virus Yes, we have gotten about 2 of these types of emails. The file is a named 1.txt (61 Bytes in size) and the email subject is "1". We are a company with about 35 email addresses under our domain and have received viruses through some of them in the past. This strange email has come to 2 of our accounts - 1 last week and 1 today. I got one today and did a google search which led me to this site. Very odd since the attachment seems to have no virus payload which you would expect for such a strange email.