[BLASTTALK] virus warning

From: Ben Clasie (clasie@MIT.EDU)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 12:03:29 EST


Hello everyone,

A warning about a virus was sent to me by Dave Woodruff at 8:40am this
morning, and recently, this virus appeared on BlastTalk. Do not open
TextDocument.zip.

Ben.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Mitvirus] More information on W32/Bagle.j@MM worm (fwd)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:42:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Dave Woodruff <dsw@MIT.EDU>
To: Dave Woodruff <dsw@MIT.EDU>

Hi,

This one has arrived in the mailboxes of at least two of our users.

-- 
David S. Woodruff                   http://www.lns.mit.edu/~dsw
MIT Lab for Nuclear Science         Phone: (617)-253-6943
24-030g, MIT                        Email: dsw@mit.edu
77 Massachusetts Avenue             FAX:  (617)-258-6591
Cambridge, MA, 02139                Call me Ishmael.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 21:57:39 -0500 From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@mit.edu> To: mitvirus@mit.edu Subject: [Mitvirus] More information on W32/Bagle.j@MM worm

This worm looks like a message from the "managers" of the MIT mail system. It takes on several different forms but they generally of the format:

your e-mail is temporarily down, run this zip file using this password to fix the problem

The zip file is password protected. Do not open it.

More information can be found at http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101071.htm

Jon

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