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" <tv@duh.org> To: "Curtis Maurand" <curtis@maurand.com> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> 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 <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>