28 Nov
2001
28 Nov
'01
11:59 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 03:36:25PM -0800, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
This one, the "payload" was in:
README.mp3.scr
I've also gotten earlier today from other mails a couple with a payload
named:
SM3SONG.mp3.scr
After feeling left out, I finally got a copy under the guise of
"YOU_ARE_FAT!.MP3.scr". It was from a different mailing list.
And people can't understand why I would prefer
PINE on a Unix shell
account over OUTLOOK (aka MS virus transfer protocol)
Where I work there are all kinds of stupid restrictions--such as
thinking that the internet consists of only e-mail and the web, and
only having proxies to do those protocols. But there is nothing
saying that Outlook or Javascript are dangerous, they are encouraged.
I will concede, however, that I have not gotten this virus (yet)
through my work e-mail. Their scanning at the servers sometimes
works.
-kb