[Esd-l] Very long subject line, readme.exe

[John D. Hardin]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Simon Matthews wrote:

> We received an email with the 'readme.exe' virus attached.
> However, I also noticed that the subject line was very long -- it
> took over 2 lines to display is on my screen. It was something
> like 'desktopsample' repeated many times over.

I got one of those as well. It's possible; there appeared to be
non-printing characters in the subject line.

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