Well I just got a virus. No surprise there really. As usual, no risk to me as I don’t use Outlook. heh.
The curious thing that I found about this virus was that it appeared to have used info of my site before mailing me the infected email. Attatched to the email was a copy of shellon’s readme.txt and the subject of the mail was ‘Change your boot screens’. Anyway, before I noticed this, I took a look at the virus’s pif file, in notepad, which was mildly interesting, but unsurprisingly not too informative. Just let me know that there were a few standard errors, that the virus for some reason had a very long string of ‘zzzzzz’ in it and that it was coded in vc++.
The real thing that caught my attention was the way the virus had used my website to make the email look interesting to me. Normally virii are obvious, the subject being something in the range of ‘Naked [insert celeb here]’ or something in bad english… But I didn’t really expect a virus in ‘Change your boot screens’. I was a bit sus about the sender - good old ‘B_’. Hmm yeah, I know him… or not.
Anyway, I’d guess that what the virus had done was visited my site, culled my email and pulled a random file and heading from the shellon page and sent them to me, in the hope that it’d catch me out… which in a way I guess it did. If I had Outlook as my mail client I guess I would be more suspicious of email, so maybe I would have been safe then… who knows?