Re: Re: GUNINSKI THE SELF-PROMOTER

[madsaxon <madsaxon () direcway com>]

At 10:26 AM 7/15/03 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> Actually, that's *STILL* impossible.  As far as I am aware of,
> every single "attack when you open the message" virus/worm
> is dependent on the fact that certain mail programs confuse
> the concept of "reading the message text" and
> "executing/interpreting code provided by an attacker".

Unless you want to consider those stupid "forward this to
everyone you know" hoaxes as a form of virus.  Since so many
people blindly follow the instructions, they are in effect
acting as the operating system, executing the payload of the
message.

I like to refer to these as "smart virii." They use human vectors
to propagate, bypassing all anti-virus measures (other than, perhaps,
Bayesian spam filters).

m5x

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