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Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 21:49:32 -0800
Moreover, they can encrypt zip by password and write password inside the message. As a result, no one virus scan detect this virus. And they will find enough idiots, who opens zip, enter password and run virus. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Vierling" <tv () duh org> To: "Curtis Maurand" <curtis () maurand com> Cc: <nanog () merit edu> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:32 AM Subject: Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Curtis Maurand wrote: : > It's annoying how easily these things spread even though they don't
rely on
: > a specific OS vulnerabililty -- hell, it's an executable *in a
zipfile*, so
: > it requires opening the zipfile and then running the program inside
it. Of
: > course everyone will run it, even though it's named dygfwefuih.exe
(random
: > characters before .exe). <grumble> : : Sure they do....its called COM/DCOM/OLE/ActiveX or whatever they : want to call it this week. Its on every windows system. No, my point was that the majority of newer trojan mail viruses don't
depend
on ActiveX exploits -- they simply wait, dormant, for a n00b to click on this mysterious-looking Zip Folder, and the mysterious-looking EXE inside. It's as if the modern e-mail viruses are closer to human infections. Only the clueful are immune. 8-) -- -- Todd Vierling <tv () duh org> <tv () pobox com>
Current thread:
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm, (continued)
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm Sam Stickland (Mar 01)
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm John Palmer (Mar 01)
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm David A. Ulevitch (Mar 01)
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 01)
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm Leo Vegoda (Mar 01)
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm Randy Bush (Mar 01)
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm Henry Linneweh (Mar 01)
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 01)
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm John Palmer (Mar 01)
- RE: Possibly yet another MS mail worm Vivien M. (Mar 01)
- Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm Alexei Roudnev (Mar 01)