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From: Dan W. (danw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-11 21:23:18


My antivirus killed it so fast I can't remember if it was a, b or c
variant. It was appended to the last message, which starts like,

------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:36:48 +0800
From: kevlin_at_[hidden]
To: boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: [boost] Mail Transaction Failed
Message-ID: <200402120032.i1C0Wq529796_at_[hidden]>
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
         boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_642BC3B6.52190D69"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Precedence: list
Message: 10

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0006_642BC3B6.52190D69
Content-Type: text/plain;
         charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary
attachment.

------=_NextPart_000_0006_642BC3B6.52190D69
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
         name="message.pif"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
         filename="message.pif"

TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
      ........................
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I guess the SMTP server doesn't scan what it sends...
Not that that I have much of an issue with the spirit of it... ;-)
The microsoft server is kind of slow tonight, trying to get all those
patches between the DOS cracks...

Cheers!


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