Email Hoax - (fwd)

[Karen Reardon <karen.reardon@yale.edu>]

Please see the below from ITS about a new e-mail hoax. Never click on 
attachments you didn't expect... ?'s - please ask.

-Karen M. Reardon 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:20:58 -0400
From: Lynna Jackson <lynna.jackson@yale.edu>
To: ITS Communications <itscomm2@yale.edu>
Subject: Email Hoax -

To: ITS Central Support Teams,
--- ITS Staff,
--- ITS Need to Know

Some email accounts on campus have received an email message from "The
Post Office <postmaster@yale.edu>" containing an attachment which is
likely infected. These messages are a hoax and were not sent from the
University Postmaster.

Central email account holders are strongly encouraged to use the Virus
Quarantine service in the account tool at: https://config.mail.yale.edu/
This quarantine service prevents such messages from reaching a person's
inbox.

For additional information about email and viruses, please see:
http://www.yale.edu/email/virus/

Please let me know if you have questions or concerns.
-- Lynna Jackson, ITS Email and Calendaring Services


----  Sample text of hoax messages ----
Dear user of yale.edu,

We have detected that your e-mail account was used to send a large amount
of spam during the last week.
We suspect that your computer was compromised and now contains a trojan
proxy server.

We recommend that you follow the instructions in order to keep your
computer safe.

Sincerely yours,
yale.edu user support team.