possible list virus?

[Megan Bigelow]

oops. i just clicked on that link to find the following:

"File attachment: Unknown0592.data

The file attached to this email was removed because it was infected with the
W32.Badtrans.B at mm virus."

guess i answered my own question.

still, what is going on here?

megan

Megan Bigelow wrote:

> Folks-
>
> Off-topic, but this is very strange and I know someone who knows
> computers better than I will know what is going on here.
>
> Something very strange just happened in my inbox. I received an email
> from "_gg at peoplepc.com", supposedly from Greg Galinsky, in response to
> the 4000 csq won't rev past 5000rpm" thread. However, a reponse to that
> email address bounces. A check of the subscriber list on the audifans
> website says that his email address is "gg at peoplepc.com", NOT
> "_gg at peoplepc.com". WTF? The orginal email appears completely blank
> until I repond to it and my mail program (Netscape 4.77's Communicator)
> quotes the text from his blank email.
>
> The strange part is that while in the original email there was nothing
> no text, pictures, nothing, in the new email I was composing as a
> reponse, an odd graphic pops up, looks kind of like a fancy illustration
> of an icon for an html tag. Was it embedded in the email? Is this some
> sort of virus or thing that probes my inbox? The tag's properties are:
> iframe src=IMAP://pop.uvm.edu?fetch%3EUID%3E|INBOX%3E10&part=1.2
> height=0 width=0.
>
> Can someone please tell me what is going on here?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Megan
> --
>
> Megan Bigelow
>
> http://www.uvm.edu/~mkbigelo

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Megan Bigelow

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