From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 08:35:03 EST
From: "rajesh chandrakar" <rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in>
> From: "Timothy Partridge" <timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk>
> To: <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:45 AM
> Subject: Unwanted publicity?
>
>
> > I was somewhat surprised to see the word Unicode on page 8 of the Metro
> > newspaper (London, UK) today (January 28, 2004).
> >
> > Unfortunately it was in the middle of an article about Mydoom, where it
> says
> > "The message may read 'The message contains Unicode characters and has
> been
> > sent as a binary attachment.'" This was the only one of
>
> I think the sentence "The message contains Unicode characters and has been
> sent as a binary attachement" is a virus file comes as an attachement in
> subject area saying "hi". I got this kind of mail twice was containing
> virus. But I don't know about the newspaper how it has come.
Was it in a paper speaking about the MyDoom worm currently spreading at
incredible rate in emails (about one third all all emails in Europe are
estimated to contain a copy of this worm, containing this sentence among
others like "Hi"...)
Other names of this virus are: W32/MyDoom.A, Novarg.A, Shimg.A, Mimail.R
A variant called MyDoom.B also exists but with lower risk.
-- For information about this worm, considered "High Risk", you may look at various anti-virus sites, including: - Norman Virus Control http://www.norman.com/virus_info/w32_mydoom_a_mm.shtml - Trend Micro PC-Cillin http://fr.trendmicro-europe.com/enterprise/security_info/virus_encyclopedia.php?s=1&VName=WORM_MYDOOM.A- Symantec Norton Anti-Virus http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html ...
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