TABINDEX seems to be a Virus

From: [at]} <weck{>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:52:30 +0200

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Dear Mailing List Subscribers

As Helmut Zinn pointed out, the message with the subject 'TABINDEX' and the
official sender 'henrytv' seems to contain a virus. It is probably best, if you
do not open that particular message.

Please note that a lot of people can post to the mailing list, hence the actual
originator is hard to identify. We are running state-of-the-art virus protection
on our computers, but unfortunately cannot monitor what is just going through
the mailing list. Given these facts, it is almost certain that the message
originates from outside our company.

Since a while, our list server is configured to pass on only messages that (seem
to) originate from a list subscriber, all the others are being moderated. So
far, this scheme seemed to provide sufficient protection against spam and the
like. The TABINDEX message is the first (and I hope the only one for a while)
that bypassed moderation.

Sorry for the bother,
        Wolfgang Weck
        Oberon microsystems, Inc.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zinn, Helmut [mailto:Helmut.Zinn{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 11:18 AM
> To: 'blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Subject: Eine Mail, die eine Virus Alarm auslöste
>
>
> Hallo
>
> heute morgen habe ich von Euch folgende Mail bekommen, die bei uns einen
> Virus Alarm auslöste:
>
> -----
> Betreff: TABINDEX
>
> Virus gefunden in der Mail von blackbox-request{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Helmut.Zinn{([at]})nowhere.xy
> am Tue, 21 May 2002 22:44:56 +0000 (UTC). Der Virus konnte nicht beseitigt
> werden aus folgendem Grund:
>
> Scenarios/Incoming/Sophos-AV: A virus has been detected: 'W32/Klez-G'.
> Scenarios/Incoming/Block Exe: 'ItemLength.GE.0'.
>
> Die Mail ist auf dem Virenscanner zwischen gespeichert, bitte beim
> Administrator
> melden.
> -----
>
> Unser Firewall-Administrator sagt es sei eine Mail ohne Text, die nur den
> Virus beinhaltet. Mehr war nicht zu erfahren. Ist das ein Fehlalarm oder hat
> es Ihr System erwischt?
>
> Viele Grüße
>
> Helmut Zinn
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