OFF: Beware dodgy mails

[Dave Bottomley]

Whilst each of the infected e-mails I've received have appeared to be from
different sources, the warning I've received from my ISP on each occasion
has been the same (bar date/time, obviously). This is it:

"The email from mangosteve at lineone.net (04/20/2002 07:41:53) contained the
WORM_KLEZ.G virus. We recommend that you do not open this attachment unless
you have suitable virus-scanning software installed."

The interesting question is why, having detected a virus, my ISP still
forward the offending e-mail.

Dave

>More than one of us are receiving mails either from non-existent people or
>appearing to be from people on this and the BOC mailing list with titles
>connected with a new website and with JPG files attached.  At least one of
>the files I got had a PIF of the same name (format seems to be
>clarke100[1].jpg and clarke100[1].pif).