Re: cygwin Digest 25 Jun 2018 00:46:06 -0000 Issue 10882 - virus alert

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2018-06-30 10:09, David Stacey wrote:
> On 30/06/18 13:19, Richard Watt wrote:
>> Did anyone else get a virus warning from the cygwin Digest 25 Jun 2018
>> 00:46:06 -0000 Issue 10882?
> It's an unsolicited invoice from someone you've never heard of. Of course it's
> malware :-)
> It's an attachment to this post [1], compressed with gzip. The compressed
> version passes through VirusTotal cleanly. If you unpack the file, though, you
> discover that it isn't a PDF at all (surprise, surprise) but a .NET executable.
> And quite a few anti-virus tools flag it as something unpleasant [2].

I get sourceware ezmlm bounce warnings, when my domain mail forwarder bounces
mail with malware, and I don't see most of the spam, as my personal ISP account
filter is configured to dump spam instead of flagging it.
I don't see a few announce posts, as some appear to get dumped by my ISP as
spam, and my mail client puts some other posts into my Junk folder.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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