In the last 3 days I've gotten about 5 emails with a virus attached.
  All different types of attachments. .doc. .xls  .zip.
  This is WAY higher then my normal virus detection (about 1 every couple
of months).

   I was wondering if I was being singled out, but now it appears that
other people are also experiencing this problem.

The headers show all different sources, but for some reason ( I'm not sure
why) I get the feeling that they are in someway mail list list related.
I've noticed one of the virii coming in a  TAPR list I subscribe to.  I'm
not sure what the common denominator is yet, but I'm still looking.

  BTW, if you have an attachment with a .zl extension, That's Zonealarm's
active email protection 'quarantining' the attachment by adding/changing
the extension.


Carl


At 01:34 PM 7/23/2001, you wrote:
>I've gotten 5 emails today all carrying a virus with .pif or .doc as the
>file name extension but that are actually executables. The emails all say
>something like "I send you this file in order to have your advice" except
>for one which appears to be a mail bounce notice
>
>They have been posted by
>142.177.77.1 = hlfx27-1.ns.sympatico.ca
>195.80.173.138 = collak.profi.sk mailto:postmaster@profi.sk
>200.52.208.19 = customer-VER-208-19.megared.net.mx
>mailto:grosado@megared.com.mx
>194.29.160.2 = elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl mailto:postmaster@pw.edu.pl
>
>Let me know if anyone else get these and NEVER open an attachment that you
>didn't expect to receive or that you don't know is not a program. PIF and
>DOC can be programs just as easily as EXE, COM, VVS.
>
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