Re: ICQ Spoofing Question (or second dumb question of the day)

[Audun <auolufse () ONLINE NO>]

At 23:04 21.09.00 -0400, you wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Robert van der Meulen wrote:
>
> > > I remember a public statement they once stated someone had hacked icq
> > > accounts via a trojan JPEG image, uhh, yeah, ok (r33t).
> > I'm curious about how they did _that_ :) don't recall reading anything
about
> > that...
>
> maybe it was really something like lame.jpg.exe (which could possibly
> fool REALLY dumb windows users who (a) have full filenames disabled,


If I'm not mistaken the trick was, when recieving files, icq only showed
the first thirty-something characters of the filename. This made it
possible to give files names like "Cool_picture.jpg
.exe", and only the "Cool_picture.jpg" part would be visible from icq.

Audun