Re: Welcome to my hometown

[Wendell Cochran atrypa@xxxxxxxx]

Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:50:36 -0400
From: Bill Troop 

> I just got a message to the list with the subject='welcome to my
hometown' -- I assume this is a virus?

Now that we're afflicted by polymorphic viruses like Klez-*, Subject
lines bear no clue to the message content. (Not that they ever did,
necessarily. But let it go.)

Under Linux, I save a suspect message to a file & check permissions:
It's executable? Guilty! . . . Or I can open it with (say) vi & see
the code.

I'm told that you can do much the same thing & safely view a suspect
file with XyWrite.

Wendell