[ale] New mail trojan (this IS Linux-related)

[William Wylde]

>I just received in my inbox a message sent from a Czech account
>masquerading as an official EarthLink message with a suspicous payload.
>Unlike most other mail trojans, this payload is in the form of a compiled
>Perl script (assuming that's what the ".cpl" extension stands for).
>


I don't think you have anything to worry about.  ".cpl" is a micro$loth file 
extension denoting a control panel applet.


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