I don't mean to scare anybody but just so you are aware that you don't need to open an attachment to get worked over. I still haven't sorted out the effects of the e-mail that launched a porno spam attack on my machine. The e-mail was addressed correctly and had the subject line "re:update" This lookes innocent enough but when I opened the e-mail, (NOT notice, an attachment) my browser immediately spawned a swarm of of "pop-up" windows that were mostly porn sites. These windows came up as fast as I could close them until eventually the PC crashed. So far, Symantec don't know what happened, they have no other reports.
Maybe this was revenge for my deleting an unauthorised hidden and locked 500 Megs file that I found sitting in a partition on my hard drive, I don't know. I found a host of files hiding as "cookies" in the temporary internet files folder but no directory entries or changes. I hope I got rid of most but there are half a dozen files shown as cookies that I still cannot delete by any means. So far there haven't been any repeats of the spam Netscape windows but I do still get lots of "dodgy" e-mails.
The attack was launched through a firewall and active virus detection. Oh, and the e-mail deleted itself as well, which prevents tracking.
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