[vox-tech] spam current events

[Alex Mandel]

Bob Scofield wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 13:51, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
>> the gif image itself is mostly white with a few colored "threads" here and
>> there.  i certainly don't see any text, so i'm not quite sure what their
>> purpose is.  perhaps it's some kind of virus?
>>
>> anyone else seeing these things?  i'm getting them a few times a day now.
>>
> 
> I'm getting these every day.  I'm getting them on my e-mail account I use on 
> Linux, and not on my e-mail business account which I use with Windows 98.  So 
> as a result I'm not getting a report from Norton on whether the .gif is a 
> virus.
> 
> I was thinking of forwarding one of these to my business e-mail address to see 
> if Norton would detect a virus on it.  But then it occurred to me that it 
> might be illegal to "knowingly" transmit a virus over the net.  So maybe the 
> next time I get one of these, I'll save it to a floppy, reboot, and let 
> Norton examine the floppy.  
> 
> Bob
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You can scan it in linux with ClamAV I think.
Sorry I don't have the specifics on how to though.

Alex