Re: Bad viruses? -- PCTECH

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Subject: Re: Bad viruses?
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:47:53 -0500
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>   9. Re: Bad viruses? (David Gibbs)
>
>Jones, John (US) wrote:
>> Apparently they're compressed files:
>> http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=B64 
>
>Well what do you know.  I never knew about that type of file.
>
>I've submitted the sample to clamav.

My first guess... maybe not a virus, but probably spam. I've seen quite a few 
recently that have the spam message in an embedded image rather than in any 
kind of text. The MIME encoding could be the image.

Submitting it isn't a bad move regardless.

Tom Liotta

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