marketplace virus posting

[Brett Dikeman]

At 8:54 PM -0400 4/11/04, <auditude at cox.net> wrote:
>Question for you guys that might know.
>
>Is stuff like this the result of an actual person actively trying to 
>set us up to catch a computer virus?  Or is this some sophisticated 
>"bot"?  What the heck is the motivation for people who want to 
>spread viruses?
>
>This is a marketplace posting that looks like it was a virus to me.
>
>http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/marketplace/2004-April/001640.html

Was there an attachment?(no).

Can an email with no attachment infect your system?(no).

This virus been out for months and well known to fake coming from 
"admin teams" at various domains.

How it even made it past the filters, since marketplace is a closed 
list, warrants further investigation, but all email in+out is 
scanned, and attachments aren't allowed on any list.
Brett
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