wing the message with the default viewer (only),
>my virus protector popped up with a message to the effect
>that c:\tmp\mutt-mutt-LEPIDUS-2136-12 was infected with
>the Exploit.IFrame.FileDownload virus. Before deleting,
>I looked at its file entry -- it was roughly 250k and bore
>a time-
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:56:04PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Thomas Baker, and lo! it spake thus:
> saying "Your password is 12zxjkjl123kjl12jz". But the
> size of each of the messages, according to Mutt, was 65k.
>
> that use it, such as Outlook. No surprise there! The only
> surprise to me
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:57:42AM -0500, Rich wrote:
> > According to F-Secure Web site, this is a virus that exploits
> > a flaw in Internet Explorer, and by extension mail readers
> > that use it, such as Outlook. No surprise there! The only
> > surprise to me is
Mutt, was 65k.
> After viewing the message with the default viewer (only),
> my virus protector popped up with a message to the effect
> that c:\tmp\mutt-mutt-LEPIDUS-2136-12 was infected with
> the Exploit.IFrame.FileDownload virus. Before deleting,
> I looked at its file entry --
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:22:02PM +0100, Dave Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:56:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > According to F-Secure Web site, this is a virus that exploits
> > a flaw in Internet Explorer, and by extension mail readers
> > that use it,
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:56:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> According to F-Secure Web site, this is a virus that exploits
> a flaw in Internet Explorer, and by extension mail readers
> that use it, such as Outlook. No surprise there! The only
> surprise to me is that 250k i
I use Cygwin Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-05) on Win2000 and just
got messages from two people with a short text message
saying "Your password is 12zxjkjl123kjl12jz". But the
size of each of the messages, according to Mutt, was 65k.
After viewing the message with the default viewer (only)
Prahlad --
...and then Prahlad Vaidyanathan said...
%
...
% ps. Is there a mutt port running on Windows ? In which case (s)he might
% be an innocent mutt-user :-)
There is, I hear, though I haven't tried it yet. I'd be quite surprised,
though, if such a machine would spread
Hi,
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 Carl B . Constantine spewed into the ether:
> Some nut is actually using Outlook for this list. I just got an email in
> response to one I posted from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that had a virus
> attached to it (.mp3.pif).
Something similar happened on another list I&
On 12:00 17 Jan 2002, David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| % response to one I posted from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that had a virus
| % attached to it (.mp3.pif).
| That's just a Program Information File, or what Win uses to remember how
| to run a DOS program. I wonder what "mp
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>
> Such things are harmless, if inappropriate to this list. Lets not
> forget however, that Mutt recently was found to be susceptible to a
> buffer overflow that could be spread through an email, no? Thankfully
> it was quickly patched, and thanks to Debian, I had it up
On 17/01/02 David Champion did speaketh:
> Viruses/worms can be embedded in a .pif file. The point of using .pif
> is that Windows software frequently considers it to indicate executable
> content that should be automatically executed when double-clicked.
> Irregularities in the PIF data can caus
At some point hitherto, Knute hath spake thusly:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Carl B . Constantine wrote:
>
> >
> >Some nut is actually using Outlook for this list. I just got an email in
> >response to one I posted from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that had a virus
> >attac
On 2002.01.17, in <20020117164300.GB3131@knute>,
"Knute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >response to one I posted from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that had a virus
> >attached to it (.mp3.pif).
>
> LOL... That's not even a virus, it's a shortcut to
ECTED] that had a virus
% attached to it (.mp3.pif).
That's just a Program Information File, or what Win uses to remember how
to run a DOS program. I wonder what "mp3" is... on that system, anyway.
%
% --
% Carl B. Constantine University of Victoria
% Programmer Ana
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Carl B . Constantine wrote:
>
>Some nut is actually using Outlook for this list. I just got an email in
>response to one I posted from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that had a virus
>attached to it (.mp3.pif).
LOL... That's not even a virus, it's a shortcut to
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
* On 17-01-02 at 17:19
* Carl B . Constantine said
> Some nut is actually using Outlook for this list. I just got an email in
> response to one I posted from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that had a virus
> attached to it (.mp3.pif).
Which nu
Some nut is actually using Outlook for this list. I just got an email in
response to one I posted from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that had a virus
attached to it (.mp3.pif).
--
Carl B. Constantine University of Victoria
Programmer Analyst http://www.uvic.ca
UNIX System
out 4000 printf bugs waiting to happen.
>> Default is to hide the file extension so that we also get the
>> nice problem of sexygirl.jpg.vbs, is it a nice girl or a
>> virus?
>
>Eudora tells you (or used to tell you, didnt use it for a while)
>that where it saved t
Kai Blin proclaimed on mutt-users that:
> Anyway, I don't think a luser would refrain opening a file called
> sexygirl.jpg.vbs if a friend of his sent it and said it was a nice
> picture, would he?
Or the other variants of the hybris worm - F*g with dogs.scr.vbs was one
(one of my collea
an say email is safe for me (with mutt/pine/whatever)
because I'm smart enough. This email attachment stuff seems like computer
darwinism to me :)
> Default is to hide the file extension so that we also get the
> nice problem of sexygirl.jpg.vbs, is it a nice girl or a virus?
Eudora tells
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:28:38PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote:
> How can I include all headers for my reply. I had to get out of this msg
> to take a look at the above Received hdr?
:set header
:unset weed
Gary
--
Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologi
is empty and I've read somewhere that Unices (including Linux) bothered
> by viruses. So I bounced this file back to myself so that I can download it
> again from windoze where I've got two anti-virus programs to check on this.
>
> I did that this morning (from windoze) and
hide the file extension so that we also get the
nice problem of sexygirl.jpg.vbs, is it a nice girl or a virus?
In other words Outlook, IE and VBS engine are all parts in the
wounderfull VRE [1] called Windows.
[1] Virus Runtime Enviroment.
--
Security only costs $30. http://www.openbsd.org/
ested, I would suggest investing in VMware for
GNU/Linux or similar, and set up an "undo-able" machine/Win32
installation/instance/whatever. Then you can boot this VM, let the
potential virus tear apart your VM in whatever way it wants, and then
just hit VMware's undo function an
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:28:38PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote:
> that I'd like to know what options do I have. Can I save this AHAOFIA.EXE
> to my hdd w/o harm to my system? ... so that I can send it as an attachment
> to my email to Norton and PC-cillin?
Yes, that should not harm your _L
again from windoze where I've got two anti-virus programs to check on this.
I did that this morning (from windoze) and when I try to save the file
my PC just locks with a black screen and two horizontal lines spaced apart
by about 3 inches. None of my anti-virus apps detected it and all my av
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