Re: Bagle.j out

[Marty Hoag <Marty.Hoag () NDSU NODAK EDU>]

Gordon D. Wishon wrote:
> I wish this was the case.  Unfortunately, we're seeing clear evidence that
> despite already renaming attachments and inserting a warning, a non-trivial
> number of people on our campus are (1) renaming, (2) unzipping, (3)
> executing, and (4) entering the 'password'.  Step (5) is typically to call
> the helpdesk to report a virus.
>
> As a result, we're going to (at least temporarily) suspend delivery of
> attachments with the .zip extension.
>
> Gordon

   That is interesting. Since yesterday when I saw the
first Bagle.j message I've worried that the next ones
will say "Please note that we have renamed the attachment
to ensure this important information gets to only you.
Please just rename it to dippy.zip then extract and
run the new salary.exe update."  ;-)
   I know there are still lots more technological
approaches (block all attachments including HTML
versions of messages, etc.) but it does come
down to the person at the end.

   marty

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