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  1. September 5th, 2002, 05:47 PM #1
    djhuk
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    blank email = 138K?

    I got one of those dodgy emails, the kind that usually have a virus. The file size was 138K, but there was no text in the actual email and no attachment showed.
    How can it be like that?
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  2. September 5th, 2002, 05:59 PM #2
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    Did you view the source to see if there's any javascript in it?? Still wouldn't account for the size, have to be a lot of code, but it'd be a start.
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  3. September 5th, 2002, 06:16 PM #3
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    Post the source, that'll at least give us somewhere to start ...
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  4. September 5th, 2002, 06:24 PM #4
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    I recieved a blank email the other night that had a VB script virus in it. It was around 130k....
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  6. September 5th, 2002, 06:26 PM #5
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    sorry, i deleted it. But i'll look out for another one.

    Looking on the symantec website it looks like it could be a VB script. Would the virus still work if the email was simply opened in Hotmail?
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  7. September 5th, 2002, 06:36 PM #6
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    Was it on a POP e-mail account or some type of web based e-mail? You still might be able to recover it.

    <edit>Ooops, I think I had my question answered before I asked it...LOL sorry djhuk</edit>
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  8. September 5th, 2002, 06:40 PM #7
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    138k is A LOT of code ... I'm thinking images size 0 ...
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  9. September 5th, 2002, 06:49 PM #8
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    It was in junk mail on Hotmail
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  11. September 5th, 2002, 06:51 PM #9
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    Originally posted here by djhuk
    I got one of those dodgy emails, the kind that usually have a virus. The file size was 138K, but there was no text in the actual email and no attachment showed.
    How can it be like that?
    I recieved some mails with the same size earlier.. It was either Klez or the Sircam virus I got (most likely Klez). It was funny that it was a blank email and not even a attachment showed up in my webmail..

    First when I forwarded the mail to my "normal" inbox did my virus scanner detect the virus as an attachment.
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  12. September 5th, 2002, 08:24 PM #10
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    I get the same thing at least 40 times a day. It is almost always Klez.
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