Re: What is this email trying to do?

Bit Twister wrote:

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.

Naturally, I didn't want to post the signature to the group.

As for the 10 pieces of malware a minute:

(a) this one is now months old;

(b) A friend was unlucky enough to lose his whole system to a virus that got
him before Norton had updated to detect it. He blamed Norton and left them
over it, saying it was their job to have it in their database. I suggested
that more probably, he was just unlucky, although Norton has copped some
bad publicity in the past. I run CA, sold in Aus as Vet.

Doug.
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