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New Re: Yahoo posted a notice
As I pointed out, the email I received had the very words "scanner down" - it was the worm, I opened it and looked at it. I do things for myself. If you get a message that is 31k is size with an attachment, that is the worm, period. There are no telling how many variants with differing "social engineering" phrases for the unwary (you).

-drl
New I'm not denying you got a virus
I'm just saying it's also true that Yahoo is having serious problems.

And I'm not unwary, I'm very careful. I haven't gotten one single virus mail, I get very little spam.

Nightowl >8#


"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
Eric Hoffer
New No doubt you did get a message like that with a virus
because the scanner was broken, and it let the virus through. As I have stated I have gotten email like that which did not scan positive for the virus like an 8K EFax attachment. Also it does that for people with a 59 byte signature file. It seems any sort of attachment email gets that message with the original message embedded inside of it.

There most likely is a bogus email with the virus that also says something like that as well.

Title is ""Alert: Virus Scan Unavailable, Attachment Not Scanned" [test]" where [test] is the name of the original email with the attachment. Test contains "ATT00224.TXT (59 B)" which is a really small file.

Off of the [link|http://groups.yahoo.com/|http://groups.yahoo.com/] page for members is an important notice, clicking on this notice goes to this web site:
[link|http://groups.yahoo.com/local/service.html|http://groups.yahoo....ocal/service.html]


Based on an advisory posted by a leading anti-virus company, Groups will temporarily reject messages with the following subject lines:

* test
* hi
* hello
* Mail Delivery System
* Mail Transaction Failed
* Server Report
* Status
* Error


Notice it does not include "Alert: Virus Scan Unavailable...".



"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"

     New low for Internet scumbags - (deSitter) - (15)
         Not sure what you mean. - (altmann) - (5)
             Re: Not sure what you mean. - (deSitter) - (4)
                 Well - (altmann) - (1)
                     Re: Well - (deSitter)
                 I've got a message that - (Arkadiy) - (1)
                     guffaw! -NT - (deSitter)
         Not a virus scam - (orion) - (8)
             Re: Not a virus scam - (deSitter) - (7)
                 Re: Not a virus scam - (orion)
                 Yahoo posted a notice - (Nightowl) - (5)
                     Re: Yahoo posted a notice - (deSitter) - (2)
                         I'm not denying you got a virus - (Nightowl)
                         No doubt you did get a message like that with a virus - (orion)
                     BTW - (deSitter) - (1)
                         I"m not infected at all - (Nightowl)

Swiftly thereafter, Choco Taco Delight.
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