My university has in the past few days. Our tech support people have let us know what to watch out for and e-mails with those subject lines are an example of a virus trying to get in, but does not mean you are infected. I received an e-mail I was supposed to have sent but was returned to me. I never sent an e-mail to that address, and the subject line was RE: that movie. But I have been checked out and my computer is virus free. So this worm is trying to make the rounds. 

Jean Frantz
School of Education
Student Services Representative
317-274-6802
ES 3131
Education Social Work Building 
902 W. New York St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202


-----Original Message-----
From: Jill Lasker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:33 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Surge in junk mail w/attachments?


Have other members of this list suddenly been besieged in the last 2-3 days
with junk?  I keep getting emails with a subject line "RE: details" and they
all simply say "Please see the attached file for details."  All the files
have a .pif extension (what is that?).  They're all from seemingly
legitimate addresses, but no one I actually know.

At least one of the addresses it came from was a legitimate display company,
which is why I wondered if any of you were getting them too.

Obviously, I haven't opened any of the attachments, but I have no idea where
this flood originated.  I'm on a Macintosh, so it's not part of the Windows
virus brigade, I presume.

Any clues?
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Jill Lasker
Writer/Editor/Researcher
Medicine/Bioscience/History
http://home.earthlink.net/~laskerj/

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