[LINK] Email account utilization warning

Carl Makin carl at xena.IPAustralia.gov.au
Thu Mar 4 17:28:38 EST 2004


Hi Tony,

Antony Barry wrote:

> It looks like somebody is targeting addresses on the basis of their 
> Australian second level domain. As I've got a mac (and I assume the 
> attachment was a windows executable) I couldn't do anything with the 
> attachment.
>
> Anybody seen these? Are they a scam or malicious?

I got a very similar one here at work stating gov.au rather than edu.au, 
also with an attachment and the same "password".  I assumed it was a 
trojan and deleted it.  Interestingly the anti-virus software run on an 
upstream server didn't pick it up as a virus.


Carl.



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