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

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 28 May 2000 Ted.Harding [at] nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:

>   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).

It just looks like an advert or something to me ;)

> 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.

More than likely harmless. No virus writer would use Java; they'd just
hook into the IE dll's. Plus, it looks a bit big to be a virus. Just looks
like an awful piece of marketing to me.

Try running it, but be careful. If there's nothing on the virus sites,
though, I would doubt it's a virus.

Cheers,

Alex.


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