Re: What is this email trying to do?

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:12:39 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
I receive occasional emails from unknown females (probably script kiddies)
whose body (the emails, not the women) is a line of hex numbers or similar.
A virus scan in Windows disclosed no risk, but they can't be innocent.

With about 10 new pieces of malware a minuted why would you think a
scan is safe. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=143424
Not to mention how long your AV sofware takes to get around to
detecting what is being mailed.
http://www.commtouch.com/Site/ResearchLab/VirusLab/recent_activity.asp

Guessing obfuscated javascript or url based on all the provided information.
.

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