mail viruses

[hank]

whats worse is I got one from my hanksmith.net support team
1 I don't have a support team it gave me a readme.zip with a .exe and a
password to inter to unlock the program
what was even dumber of me was I launched the stupid thing before I knew
what it was.
I scanned with avg and it didn't find any viruses so don't know if this was
a virus or what it was but I got something simular.
if I do have a virus  the question is what is it? and where can I get a
removal tool?
thanks
hank
----- Original Message -----
From: <showell at lrxms.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:55 AM
Subject: mail viruses


> Folks,
>
> Yes there are some amazing viruses or whatever you want to call them
> running amuck. Check out the following its pretty interesting. I've not
> included the header info, but its the text of the message that I find
> slightly amusing.
> Note there is no attachment so don't be alarmed by what you read.
>
>
> Subject: Notify about your e-mail account utilization.
> From: support at lrxms.net
>
> [-- Attachment #1 --]
> [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --]
>
> Dear user of Lrxms.net gateway  e-mail  server,
>
> Our main mailing server will  be temporary unavaible  for next two days,
> to continue receiving mail in  these days you  have  to configure our
> free
> auto-forwarding  service.
>
> For details see  the attach.
>
> Best  wishes,
>     The Lrxms.net  team                             http://www.lrxms.net
>
> [-- Attachment #2: Information.pif --]
> [-- Type: application/octet-stream, Encoding: base64, Size: 16K --]
>
> [-- application/octet-stream is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part)
> --]
>
> The part that is amusing to me is I didn't know I had a support team, I
> didn't know I had a mail server/gateway, and well although lrxms.net is
> my domain, I don't have a web page at http://www.lrxms.net. I am very
> interested in this virus all the same for what its doing.
> Clever!
>
>
>
>
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