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ATARI.ORG VIRUS EMAILS
March 15, 2004
Dear Atari.Org reader,
due to a new Microsoft Windows virus outburst, fake E-mails seemingly coming
from support@atari.org are spreading.
Atari.Org is not the sender of these mails, we're not running
Microsoft Windows and hence we're not infected.
The virus e-mail looks something like the example below, which
was sent to our own mailbox (support@atari.org), please also notice that
there is a binary attachment (Microsoft Windows excuteable file):
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:13:54 +0000
From: support@atari.org
To: support@atari.org
Subject: E-mail account disabling warning.
Parts/Attachments:
1 Shown 10 lines Text
2 12 KB Application
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Dear user of Atari.org,
We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may
contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe,
please, follow the instructions.
Further details can be obtained from attached file.
Kind regards,
The Atari.org team http://www.atari.org
[ Part 2, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "Attach.pif") 16KB. ]
[ Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file. ]
Indeed, it seems to be coming from us, but looking a bit closer at the headers
reveal something else:
Return-path:
Envelope-to: support@atari.org
Delivery-date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:12:57 +0200
Received: from 82-44-161-138.cable.ubr03.haye.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.44.161.138] helo=ixtreme)
by gem.atari.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1)
id 1B0MR6-00055X-00
for support@atari.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:12:56 +0200
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:13:54 +0000
To: support@atari.org
Subject: E-mail account disabling warning.
From: support@atari.org
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="--------ttnhuoclyexguqvonhlw"
Here we can see that some user on a blueyonder.co.uk cable
connection is the actual virus sender.
How to prevent this?
Well, change away from Windows. There are free virus-liberated alternatives to chose from.
However, one thing you can always be sure of:
Atari.Org will never be sending you
Windows executable files (com, exe, pif..). If you receive anything like that,
it's not from us.
Thanks for reading,
Atari.Org Staff
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