I don't know what to think of this and didn't know where to put it..??

Here is an email i got..

You indicate use of PPTP by selecting VPN rather than a modem as yourdevice type.
\par }\pard\plain
\s4\fi-720\li2880\sb240\sa6\keepn\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\o utlinelevel3\adj
ustright \b\i\cgrid {2.4.2.1 Dial-up PPTP Connections \par }\pard\plain \nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright \fs20\cgrid{The most typical application for PPTP involves a dial-up PPP connection to the Internet followed by a separate PPTP connection to a remote tunnel server.
This "two call" sequence requires two connection icons in the Dial-Up Networking folder, and two "dialing" actions by the user. The results of a successful tunnel over the Internet are two network connections on your
PC: one to the Internet, and one to the target network served by the tunnel server.

It had a 57k batch file attached to it, called connectionc.bat.
Then I got this..
For example,

transmit $USERID

is a valid command because $USERID is a variable of type string.


4.0 String Literals

Scripting for Dial-Up Networking supports escape sequences and caret
translations, as described below.

String Literal Description

^char Caret translation

If char is a value between '@' and '_', the character sequence is
translated into a single-byte value between 0 and 31. For example, ^M is
converted to a carriage return.
with a script.doc attached and similar.exe (125k)

Any ideas? This is somehow familiar to me but I don't know why..

[Tom Jones]

And, what are you going to use the Point to Point tunneling Protcol for....

I'm not this just appeared in my email, and i don't know the sender
Is it legit?

er do I want to do point to point spelunking?

[Mntsnow]

Here is an email i got..

I'm not this just appeared in my email, and i don't know the sender

Hmmmm ...you know better than to ask that Surreal.....It sounds like to me you got a trojan/password stealing email

,, yeah but dang creative eh Mntsnow?

btw hows the weather up there


ok dad, I'll behave

[dragonb]

Awesome weather here. SNOW, SNOW, SNOW.
I heard reports that some of the resorts got over 100" this week. I have about 6 on my front lawn.

[Jonty]

It's got to be some sort of virus.

I got my first one a couple of weeks ago - Win32.magistr.29188

This was sent to me as an email and the body of it was along similar lines to yours. Apparently it takes random text from the machine it has infected. There were three attachments to the email purporting to be a gif image, a shortcut and a text file. In fact they were programs.

Needless to say my up-to-date virus software detected it straight away and I trashed it.

[NeoStarO1]

Doesn't anyone else on the board think its so odd that so many of us TechIMO regulars are getting hit with virus more than usal this past week? Something I have noticed, so far I have not be hit yet.

NeoStar

Neo, I get them all the time, I just thought this particularly sneaky and creative
That’s why I brought it up for mention.
Actullay I got 3 emails instead of 3 attachments. Two from teh same sender one from some other name.

Needless to say my up-to-date virus software detected it straight away and I trashed it.

hee hee mine too, my eyes. Make sure you didn't leave it in your recycle bin.

[Jonty]

Make sure you didn't leave it in your recycle bin

Heh he, cleared that and defragged too.