Worms making the rounds.

[Gordon Fitch]

Macdonald Stainsby:
> I want to warn radical email receivers.
> 
> Several times recently I have recieved an email from addresses with seemingly
> normal names- Mary Smith, Jim Robertson, whatever- and the text was about doing
> jail solidarity work, or doing a project against the war or the like.
> 
> They came with an attachment. The attachments had a text that indicated a
> similar file. The extension has been either .exe or .pif. These are worms. I do
> not know the type, but one of the radicals who received this has alerted people
> previously.
> 
> The texts are usually the kind that a radical would trust with an attachment.
> They are sent out privately, so I'm thinking this is deliberate cyber-attacks on
> the left.    ...

Some of my non-Left-appearing e-personae have received them
as well, so I think they're more general than that.  For
instance, I received one where the camouflage related to
linguistics and another to (not particularly political) tapes
of obscure films.

-- Gordon