[Sheflug] OT -- but can anyoen help??

[(Ted Harding) <nospam [at] nessie.mcc.ac.uk>]

Sorry to intrude with this, but I'm drawing a blank on other fronts,
and you folks often know a thing or two ...

We have just received an email which, for no reason which can have
anything to do with the subject of the mail, arrived with an attachment
named

  Cinderella.exe (417286 bytes)

Suspecting that the sender may be the victim of a virus, I have
searched the usual virus info sources without turning up anything
relevant under "cinderella" (the only "cinderella"s I can find are
ancient and tiny).

The file itself is clearly a Windows executable, and as revealed
by "strings" bristles with Java calls; it also includes several URLs
pointing to different pages on www.bitmagic.com which seems to
be a site specialising in media-player stuff.


Has anyone heard of this thing?

Maybe the sender accidentally attached an otherwise innocuous
program; but if it is in fact sinister we'd like to know.

With thanks,
Ted.

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