maybe this should be on sec focus but.

Fri Aug 1 18:43:10 UTC 2003

It seems to come with a message attachment of "message.zip".

The body of the message goes something like this:
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From: Admin 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:25 AM
To: <user-ID>
Subject: your account <some-random-string>
Importance: High

Hello there,

I would like to inform you about important information regarding your
email address. This email address will be expiring. Please read
attachment for details.

---
Best regards, Administrator
<same-random-string-as-in-subject-line>

Attachment seems to be "message.zip"
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I would have sent this to the security list, but I got dropped today.

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 14:27:26 -0400
> From: Damian Gerow <damian at sentex.net>
> To: "'nanog at merit.edu'" <nanog at merit.edu>
> Subject: Re: maybe this should be on sec focus but.
> X-GPG-Key-Id: 0xB841F142
> X-GPG-Fingerprint: C7C1 E1D1 EC06 7C86 AF7C  57E6 173D 9CF6 B841 F142
> 
> 
> Thus spake Drew Weaver (drew.weaver at thenap.com) [01/08/03 14:25]:
> >             I have had like 4 users call and tell me that they're 
receiving
> > email from admin at ourdomainname with a unidentified attachment, 
possibly a
> > worm that exploits the new Microsoft vulnerability last week, all 4 
of these
> > people reported that their updated this morning antivirus software 
missed
> > it.
> 
> The latest NAI definitions catch it as Exploit-Codebase (which I 
*think* is
> just a general catchall).  We have an open ticket with F-Prot for 
this, and
> are currently waiting on updated definitions from them.
> 
>   - Damian

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