Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners

[Christopher Chin <cchin () ack Berkeley EDU>]

Today at 15:08 (-0500), Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:08:04 -0500
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> To: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh () sbcglobal net>
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners
>
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:52:10 PST, Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh () sbcglobal net>  said:
>
> > Common sense, in these times shows you to not open emails from strangers
> > especially with *.zip files unless they are coming from a known party based on
> > some kind of dialog prior to it being sent and received.
>
> Common sense always loses when fighting against the promise of dancing hampsters.

Empirically speaking, common sense does not appear to
be common at all.  ;-)