From: rajesh chandrakar (rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 23:46:21 EST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>
To: "rajesh chandrakar" <rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in>
Cc: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: Unwanted publicity?
> 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.
No. not as a news paper report on virus. But as per the Timothy Partridge as
saying that the sentence was appeared in New Paper of London, UK.
Rajesh
> --
>
> 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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