Re: Trojan Alert was: Check this

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <4.2.2.20000309152159.00d31ea0 () mail speedus net>, Kai Schlichting wr
ites:
> Can someone with a lucky hand in Visual Basic actually tell us what
> the trojan attachment we saw (LINKS2.VBS) we saw (full mail headers
> included, in case Shawn hasn't seen them yet) actually does.
> Seems to cloak itself well, and my Norton AV is *not* detecting anything.
There was a report on Bugtraq the other day that some AV programs don't look 
at .VBS files.  You may have to select 'check all files' or at least add .VBS 
to your list of extensions to scan.

                --Steve Bellovin