mail viruses

[Alex Snow]

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I've gotten a few messages of this kind. their one downfall is the 
atachment is a .pif file so only a person with very little skill would 
open it. if they wanted to target a wider variety of users it should 
have been a msword doc.
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:55:37AM -0500, 
showell at lrxms.net wrote:
> 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
> 
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> [-- 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
> 
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> 
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> 
> 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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