Ok my subject is for fun, but seriously, I received an email with an attached file:
phpMyAdmin-2.2.0rc3-php3.zip.bat
asking to take a look at the file.
I guess that depending on my email client, I could have seen phpMyAdmin-2.2.0rc3-php3.zip and be tempted to double-click it.
Well I didn't because this contains a virus.
Bye
Marc
They should have called it rc4 ;-) More seriously, I also received a couple of emails with sircam virii in reply to some of my post on the ml ... As would have said Mulder : trust no 1
Alain.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Delisle" DelislMa@CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca To: phpmyadmin-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 7:07 PM Subject: [Phpmyadmin-devel] Is phpMyAdmin a virus?
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Marc Delisle wrote:
SirCam is strike again in order to have your advice
Heh heh heh!
Hi all,
This is SIRCAM, a Worm/Virus. And I received the same last week with phpMyAdmin in attached file (and much of others before with MPEG, Zip, Word or Excel files, etc.).
The (enfected) sender of this mail had a copy of phpMyAdmin RC3 in his own disk. And your email adress in his adress book.
Of course, you can configure postfix or sendmail (with procmail) to reject this mail.
http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/sircam.shtml http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99141 And so on...
Armel.
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