Re: Hey, ya! =))

[madsaxon <madsaxon () direcway com>]

At 09:12 AM 3/9/2004 -0600, jeremy () austin ibm com wrote:
> Any virus that is inside a password protected zip file, and that
> requires the user to type in the password should never have made it to
> it's 2nd/3rd infection.  This one is social engineering at it's
> finest..  "Ooooh, a password, what's inside must be secret!"  :^)

I can't really think of any legitimate reason to pwd-zip
an attachment and then include the pwd in plain text in the
body.  I think it's safe to assume that any such message is
malware and discard it as far up the chain as possible.

m5x

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