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Re: Email
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 08:35:15 -0500
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 04:04:26 PST, D B <geggam692000 () yahoo com> said:
I wish for someone from experience to explain to me why any virus can infect any mail server / user when those administrating a mail server can make a mail server handle mail in the manner I pasted a snippet of
The "cannot be represented" wasn't done by the mail server, it was generated that way by MyDoom itself, and is a big chunk of why it was so successful. It *conceals* the fact that it's an executable binary and gives the user a plausible reason why they should open it.
The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.
"Wow, I wonder what it is.... <click click>". Social engineering at its finest. :)
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