RE: Fwd: YOUR PAYPAL.COM ACCOUNT EXPIRES

["Bojan Zdrnja" <Bojan.Zdrnja () LSS hr>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com 
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of 
> Larry Hand
> Sent: Saturday, 15 November 2003 8:38 a.m.
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Fwd: YOUR PAYPAL.COM ACCOUNT EXPIRES
>
> On Thursday 13 November 2003 04:43 pm, Larry Hand wrote:
> > Anyone else seeing this? It comes with an attachment Paypal.asp.scr. 
> > Anyone know what it is? It sure looks suspicious.
>
> And a bunch of people answered! Thanks to you all.
>
> Thanks for the links. I expect it's that MiMail trojan. It's rare that a 
> virus gets through the filters here. Apparently it's a new variant which 
> slipped in before the newest AV signature updates were installed. Since
NAI 
> didn't find out about it until today, I guess that's reasonable :-)

That is why you should implement content blocking at your e-mail server.
There is absolutely no reason to allow .scr files to go around. If you had
this blocked, it would stop MiMail-I without AV updates.
Also, note that this attachment has double extension, which should also be
automatically blocked.

You can check unsafe extensions list at Microsoft's Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;262631


Regards,

Bojan Zdrnja
CISSP

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