Since the first MyDoom (which appeared almost six months ago, to the day) I have been nice and snug behind my executable attachment filter. And my zipfile attachment filter. But then MyDoom-M slips past ....
The reason is because it puts spaces or newlines into its MIME. Very smart. Apparently the MIME decodes OK (spaces and newlines are ignored by the MIME parser) but it sure makes it look different to my filters. I post this message so that folks can get working on regexp rules that take spaces and newlines into account. This MIME filter worked on almost all zipfiles until now: UEsDBAoAA* MyDoom-M however sends itself like this (two examples only): U EsDBAoAA [rest of MIME here] or UEs DBAo AA [rest of MIME here] Not one shy of a challenge, I'll admit this beat my filter. And I'll also speculate that this will not pose a long-term problem. If you're a regexp w1zard, feel free to share how you'd approach this! My current thoughts are something like this: U*E*s*D*B*A*o*A*A* Still got newline prob though. Stu --- Stuart Udall stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] net - http://www.cyberdelix.net/ --- * Origin: lsi: revolution through evolution (192.168.0.2) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html