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

[Luke Farrar <nospam [at] chevrons.demon.co.uk>]

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

> 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.
> 


The bitmagic site seems to have a "send this to a friend" option, and lots
of funny video's, so maybe thats whats happened. Ewan's right. What's the
worst that can happen ;+)
 
Luke Farrar


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