At 07:42 AM 3/19/2004 -0800, Steve Maas ushered forth:
>In case anyone doesn't realize it, the message below is bogus. The
>attachment, which fortunately has been stripped, contained a worm. Some
>slimebag has been sending these through various email lists recently. If
>you receive something similar on another list, delete it.
It's not an individual sending the messages, it is one of many variants of the bagle/beagle worm. Executing the attachment plants the worm on one's local machine, and it spreads itself from there.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/
rgds, Dave Baseley, just in from cleaning out yet another late winter snowfall in Berks County PA