new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners

Christopher Chin cchin at ack.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Dec 4 21:38:24 UTC 2003


Today at 15:08 (-0500), Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:08:04 -0500
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
> To: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners
>
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:52:10 PST, Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh at sbcglobal.net>  said:
>
> > Common sense, in these times shows you to not open emails from strangers
> > especially with *.zip files unless they are coming from a known party based on
> > some kind of dialog prior to it being sent and received.
>
> Common sense always loses when fighting against the promise of dancing hampsters.

Empirically speaking, common sense does not appear to
be common at all.  ;-)





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