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RE: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners
From: "Priyantha" <priyantha () wightman ca>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:47:57 -0500
At 09:53 PM 03/12/2003, Jamie Reid wrote: The other thing that worries me is that those who rely on their ISP to scan for viruses, a false sense of security can come into play. In the case of these types of email viruses, the user might think the file is OK because it was scanned.
The AVScanner should indicate that the file couldn't scan because it is password protected and hence opening the file may be risky. Priyantha
Current thread:
- new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Mike Tancsa (Dec 03)
- Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners J. Oquendoy (Dec 03)
- Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Mike Tancsa (Dec 03)
- Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Damian Gerow (Dec 03)
- Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Mike Tancsa (Dec 03)
- Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Mike Tancsa (Dec 03)
- RE: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Priyantha (Dec 04)
- RE: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Henry Linneweh (Dec 04)
- Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 04)
- Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Christopher Chin (Dec 04)
- RE: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners R. Benjamin Kessler (Dec 04)
- RE: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners Priyantha (Dec 04)