Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 16:56:01 07/30/01
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On July 30, 2001 at 19:00:11, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >Hello, > >This is off-topic but just a warning about e-mails from unknown sources with >attachments and, generallly, just a text like "Hi! How are you? I send you this >file in order to have your advice. See you later. Thanks" The attachment is a >.doc.pif and the .pif only shows up in the source if you scroll it totally to >the right. In one of twenty cases the virus, the "SarCam"-virus attempts to >delete all your files on the sixteenth of october. I even received two spanish >versions of this thing. I am possibly to late to warn anybody as this was five >days ago but still, maybe this does ring a bell for somebody who opened it and >saw nothing happening, in which case you probably better look on the web for a >way to get rid of the thing. > >Five days before that on another computer someone I know got something similar, >but this time it were .exe files and just random or no text. No idea yet what >that one was, probably older viruses. Maybe it has something to do with delayed >updates of virusscanners because people are on holidays? > >No hoax, this. Caveat emailopener I would say in my best pig-latin. > >See you guys, and ladies! > >Eelco http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.removal.tool.html Pichard.
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