Ahhh... It is the W32.HLLW.Torvel.B@mm worm but it seems to have picked up piclist.com as one of the possible "fake" domains. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.torvel.b@mm .html I was VERY concerned since that sort of an email is something a piclist.com member might expect to receive. --- James. -----Original Message----- From: James Newton, Host [mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com] Sent: 2004 Jan 21, Wed 11:26 To: Pic Microcontroller Discussion List (PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU) Subject: all: [ADMIN] "Your Account at Piclist.com has expired." is a scam Not sure if anyone else is getting these but: - I am not the author of these emails. - It has (I believe) a virus attached. - The actual email headers show the real source: Tracking message source: 62.99.116.109: Routing details for 62.99.116.109 [refresh/show] Cached whois for 62.99.116.109 : abuse@euskaltel.es Piclist.com is currently at 66.13.172.18 If you receive this, please do not open it (or preview it). I will never send an "account at piclist.com has expired" notice because I don't (ever) expire accounts. I do sort of hibernate them after a while, but that is not the same and no email notice is sent. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. If you need to contact me about it (please do) just forward this email to jamesnewton@piclist.com --- James Newton: PICList webmaster/Admin mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com X-Symantec-TimeoutProtection: 0 Return-Path: Received: from localhost ([62.99.116.109]) by nt.massmind.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id org for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:48:08 -0800 From: Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: Your Account at Piclist.com has expired. To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="MAaqPXlJsmqWduXGPjrkpNAMRSWbXKuH" Status: OR

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James.

From: PiclistInfo@piclist.com [mailto:PiclistInfo@piclist.com]
Sent: None
To: webmaster@piclist.com
Subject: Re: Your Account at Piclist.com has expired.

Hello webmaster,

We are sorry that we cannot offer our "old" service
anymore.
Your account will expire at the 2003-11-23.
But after all, we still offer a free-mail service,
which you have to join right now !!!
Our new prices and services are described in the attached html file,
which is a compressed ZIP archive.

Sicerely Yours
The Piclist.com Team --- James. ________________________________ From: PiclistInfo@piclist.com [mailto:PiclistInfo@piclist.com] Sent: None To: webmaster@piclist.com Subject: Re: Your Account at Piclist.com has expired. Hello webmaster, We are sorry that we cannot offer our "old" service anymore. Your account will expire at the 2003-11-23. But after all, we still offer a free-mail service, which you have to join right now !!! Our new prices and services are described in the attached html file, which is a compressed ZIP archive. Sicerely Yours The Piclist.com Team -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu