On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Matthew Cline wrote:
> On Monday 11 March 2002 06:46 pm, Charlie Watts wrote:
>
>> Did you play it? (or at least look at it more closely)
>
> Ah. It's file type *is* "MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows",
> so I guess it's a virus. And the raw text of the message has:
>
> Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
> name=speedtest[1].exe
>
> I thought that naming the file a .exe was strange, but I'm not enough
> of a Windows person to realize that it meant a virus.
It is. Windows, or more specifically the Outlook client, ignores the
content type header when it *KNOWS* that something is special -- the
.exe extension in this case.
It will run the code and, before a recent patch, do so without the
security checks that are in place for application/* types to work...
Daniel
--
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is
overwhelmed the capacity is in future shock.
-- Alvin Toffler, _Future Shock_
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