On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 08:43:19PM +0000, Antony Stone wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 6:37 pm, Erik Corry wrote: > > > You need to distinguish between Worms and Viruses. Worms are just > > propagating themselves. There's never any harm in dropping a worm > > since they are not part of a project or a correspondance. > > > > Viruses on the other hand attach to otherwise legitimate files and > > of course they should be bounced. > > I disagree. Certainly, many years ago, this was true of viruses, but today? It is the definition of a virus that it attaches itself to other files.
> I don't think so. > > What is the most recent virus you can think of which attached itself to > otherwise legitimate files, rather than being the entire content of whatever > it is the victim receives? For example most Word Macro viruses are real viruses. To pick a random example, Clamav recently added a sig for Macro.Word97.Onex which does not mail itself anywhere. Did you read what I wrote regarding Worms and Viruses? You seem to be talking about worms. Viruses are not dead, though there are worm/virus hybrids. -- Erik Corry I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a [EMAIL PROTECTED] bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners. - B. Breathed. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
