possible list virus?

[Dan Simoes]

There are viruses going around, as always.
In this case, the audifans server caught it and deleted it, but it
appears that Greg's machine is infected.

Megan Bigelow wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
>
> Megan Bigelow
>
> http://www.uvm.edu/~mkbigelo