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"F. Leon Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
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F. Leon Wilson
Date:
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 06:14:03 -0600
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Chomsky members:

There is yet another trojan that uses/abuses your address book is being
sent around.

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/23843.html>

This trojan has some novel "social engineering" in that the attached
"www.myparty.yahoo.com" is an executable COM that people mistake for a
URL.  I've been getting SPAM alerts from other Listserv sites for several
days now; this morning I'm seeing copies hitting several Listserv.

The inbound subject looks like:

Subject: new photos from my party!

It is approximately 43K in size.

F. Leon

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