[Fwd: LF: More suspicious messages]

[Andre Kesteloot]

Alan Melia wrote:

> Hi all, I have just had a new one to me. I received an undelivered mail
> message, purporting to come from the "Mail Delivery System". Using
> techniques learned from Dave G3YMC, this look very suspicious it does not
> contain a message body relating to anything I have sent at any time. There
> inadequate information to identify the message so there is a tempation to
> open the attachment. The attachment looks very 'dodgy' being a 40k block of
> hex, which is disguised to be a WAV file but has one of those suspicious
> double extensions (i.e magazine.dat.bat )
>
> I was fooled into opening the attachment originally and it crashed Outlook
> Express. I have since scanned with McAfee and it indicates I am not
> infected. This may be an innocent error, but I cynically suspect it is an
> attempt to get the user to open an extension and activate questionable code.
>
> If anyone knows different...please shoot me down, but in the meantime be
> carefull about supposedly "Undelivered Mail" messages.
>
> Cheers de Alan G3NYK
> alan.melia@btinternet.com