Re: Unwanted publicity?

From: rajesh chandrakar (rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 23:46:21 EST

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    From: "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>
    To: "rajesh chandrakar" <rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in>
    Cc: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:05 PM
    Subject: Re: Unwanted publicity?

    > From: "rajesh chandrakar" <rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in>
    > > From: "Timothy Partridge" <timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk>
    > > To: <unicode@unicode.org>
    > > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:45 AM
    > > Subject: Unwanted publicity?
    > >
    > >
    > > > I was somewhat surprised to see the word Unicode on page 8 of the
    Metro
    > > > newspaper (London, UK) today (January 28, 2004).
    > > >
    > > > Unfortunately it was in the middle of an article about Mydoom, where
    it
    > > says
    > > > "The message may read 'The message contains Unicode characters and has
    > > been
    > > > sent as a binary attachment.'" This was the only one of
    > >
    > > I think the sentence "The message contains Unicode characters and has
    been
    > > sent as a binary attachement" is a virus file comes as an attachement in
    > > subject area saying "hi". I got this kind of mail twice was containing
    > > virus. But I don't know about the newspaper how it has come.
    >
    > Was it in a paper speaking about the MyDoom worm currently spreading at
    > incredible rate in emails (about one third all all emails in Europe are
    > estimated to contain a copy of this worm, containing this sentence among
    > others like "Hi"...)
    >
    > Other names of this virus are: W32/MyDoom.A, Novarg.A, Shimg.A, Mimail.R
    > A variant called MyDoom.B also exists but with lower risk.

    No. not as a news paper report on virus. But as per the Timothy Partridge as
    saying that the sentence was appeared in New Paper of London, UK.

    Rajesh

    > --
    >
    > For information about this worm, considered "High Risk", you may look at
    > various anti-virus sites, including:
    >
    > - Norman Virus Control
    > http://www.norman.com/virus_info/w32_mydoom_a_mm.shtml
    >
    > - Trend Micro PC-Cillin
    >
    http://fr.trendmicro-europe.com/enterprise/security_info/virus_encyclopedia.
    php?s=1&VName=WORM_MYDOOM.A
    >
    > - Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
    >
    http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html
    >
    > ...



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