On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:33:35AM +0200, Paulo Jan wrote: > Seems to me that the main "feature" of this virus isn't the text, but > the fact that the attachments that it sends always have two extensions: > ".xls.bat", ".doc.lnk" and so on. This way, it tricks Windows lusers who > have the "hide extensions" option turned on into clicking on them. You got something backwards there. The problem isn't the users. The problem is the operating system and its vendor who stubbornly refuses to distribute a systems that offers even minimum security. In short: if you use Windows, you are an idiot - but you wouldn't have to be an idiot with data loss or an idiot being part of a DDoS attack (anyone seen any in the wild, really? cf. http://www.fefe.de/ddos.html) if it weren't for that marketing department turned software giant. N.B., anyone tried MS's solution to the problem (i.e. the Office patch)? It basically renders Outlook useless. Eh. Wait. Make that "even more useless". Good work. > So you could write a script to look at the name of the attachments > and look for the ones that follow that pattern. Boring. "I see no reason why virus authors, once identified, should be allowed to live.": http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010724/tc/death_to_virus_writers__1.html > (Aside, of course, of checking out the patches that antivirus vendors > must be putting out...) Ah yes, our friends and saviours from the other end of the gutter. Interesting to let the last 10 or so years pass by and wonder - and I mean *really* wonder - how anyone could be so unbelievably stupid to run software that has never worked *and* pay additional money to a bunch of hippies investing their time and (limited) programming skills into ways to make money by selling hacks and workarounds for a B.A.D. OS instead of improving this OS. Ooops. Closed source. Embrace and anally rape. Pity. Anyway, if I were a virus vendor, I'd sacrifice virgins by the dozen hoping that Microsoft never, ever hires competent programmers. Reply-to set. WTF has this virus crap got to do on this list? qmail-scanner lists exists and your problem has nothing to do with Unix.
