Last night at 04.00+5.00 GMT a mail was distributed as a filmscanners_digest
list mail. The mail contained W32Beagle/Bagle variant virus. The message
title was 'Site changes'. I received a copy myself.
DO NOT OPEN THIS MAIL, DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY.
I have had a couple of mails from concerned list members. Plus of course a
hundred or so returned rejected mails from automated AV responders.
I believe what was distributed was non-infectious and non-harmful, since NAV
is in use on the list server with 22/03/04 defs. The message should have
been cleaned before distribution by the listserver. However I can't be
absolutely sure what got distributed as the copy I received had already been
interdicted by NAV as incoming mail.
Details and removal tools are at
I have run a full AV scan and GFI mail security scan on the server, both
come up clean.
The mail will have originally come from a digest member who has somehow
acquired W32Bagle :( Probably someone on the E.Coast of the USA, if the
timezone can be believed,
PLEASE ensure you are running effective antivirus progs with up-to-date AV
defs. and never open attachments unless you are sure they are safe. NO
EMAILS FROM THE FILMSCANNERS LIST SERVER WILL EVER CONTAIN ATTACHMENTS, so
if you get such a mail, delete it unread.
Regards
Tony Sleep www.halftone.co.uk
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