On Thursday 20 May 2004 7:50 pm, Jim Maul wrote:
> > > There is something that is causing clamav to not be able to detect this
> > > virus after the message has been bounced and now forwarded.
> >
> > Damaged bounces are not dangerous. Why bother making signatures for them
> > when you don't make money showing how many viruses you detect?
>
> Can you elaborate on how they arent dangerous? I realize its slightyly
> harder to get infected because there is no attachment itself to click on,
> but the possibility is there. Especially since the virus is just mime
> encoded. All it would take is outlook getting this message, decoding the
> mime segment and executing the now valid letter45.txt.pif.
I wouldn't put it past Micro$oft to decide this would be a neat new feature to
add to Outlook (lookout), so that it can "helpfully" present the user with a
nicely decoded mime attachment, even from a "slightly corrupted" email.
Cynically yours,
Antony.
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