After seeing the flood of mail about the latest bit of malware and how
to filter and to disable it, I decided that it's time to spell out the
problem in some detail and to make a call for sanity.
Abstract:
With the attention received by the ``ILOVEYOU'' worm that floated
around the Internet in the early part of May 2000, many people are
wondering why their anti-virus software didn't prevent them from
becoming infected and how they can protect themselves in the
future. Here we argue that this approach to the problem, though
popular, is fatally flawed and simply cannot work.
http://www.interhack.net/pubs/email-trojan/
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Matt Curtin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
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