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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Curtis Maurand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
