Is this for real?

[David Sheldon]

It is not at all real. There have been many viruses recently that are
work in a similar manner to this. In many ways it is a well-written
message. It looks as if it comes from someone with authority, and also
implies that they already know that you have a virus, so you wont report
to them that your computer is going slowly. 

I believe this is the worm that is currently causing Google many problems
by carrying out many searches to find email addresses to attack.

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?isc=d46940064182f61f40ca333bc3c2f439
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3927963.stm

David

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:26:45PM +0100, Chris Gibbs wrote:
> Hi ya,
> I just recieved the mail below and wonder if it is for real.
> It certainly don't help me much because the attachment appears to be a 
> .pif file.  I guess its something that 'runs' on Microsoft.   I don't 
> use Microsoft.   My guess is its something nasty.
>
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