[NU Sports] Virus

[Roy S. Lamberton]

I think it is interesting that neither the Mailwasher program or Avast Pro
(anti-virus) picked up on the e-mails as being bogus or even questionable.

But it did trip the junk mail filter in Outlook - representing the only time
I've had stuff get thru my two usually powerful filters only to be snagged
by the Microsoft product.

Strange, but true.

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Mike Nolan
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:40 AM
To: mhrjgscott at aol.com
Cc: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Virus

> I did not find a virus in the mail, and FWIW John's widow's name was Gail,

> maybe she had a laptop with our list and in a panic sent the request to
the 
>  whole address book multiple times.

The text of that email is virtually identical with others I have seen and is
IMHO
a 'phishing' attempt.  Many of the ant-spam/anti-virus engines will label
everything a
'virus' even if it is technically some other kind of threat.

The first time I saw it it even supposedly came from someone who was known
to be travelling 
to the foreign city that was cited, an interesting coincidence.

Based on the headers, I don't believe it came from Gail or John's computer
but was forged 
to appear to come from John's email address.

How John's email address got in the hands of the sender of that note is
unclear.
--
Mike Nolan

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