Re: [Sheflug] Any virusologists here?:-)

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 Sep 2001 9:26 pm, you wrote:

> I've got an email with an attachment, which, apparently, contains an (MS)
> virus, which, of course, is of no interest to my system, it appears to be
> sent from one of my (MS) correspondents. And they say that they repeatedly
> receive it 'from me'. Not a big deal (not for me at least), but if anybody
> has the required tools and interest in virusology, I could forward it for
> classification / cloning / whatever:-)

If you want to figure it out yourself I would recommend running "strings" 
over it and noting the file name, then look at an online virus database such 
as those from the virus software vendors. You can usually find something that 
matches.

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