On Friday 30 November 2001 11:59 am, you stated : > On Friday 30 November 2001 15:56, you wrote: > BTW, is there some new virus going around? I'm getting mail from people > with a suitably technical subject line (Answering something I hadn't asked) > with gibberish (40K or so) with an audio/x-wav file; here's 2 names from > recent ones > > YOU_ARE_FAT!.MP3.scr or > NEWS_DOC.DOC.scr > > Neither of those files would be comfortable in windoze. M$ Outlook again? > And from memory, .scr is a screensaver, not an audio format
yup, .scr is a screensaver extension, which means that if windows is hiding extensions for executables (which it does by default), then most people will only see YOU_ARE_FAT!.MP3 and NEWS_DOC.DOC And since .scr extension, and windows consideres this an executable, double click it (in windows) and it is executed. It is most likely NOT a true .scr file, but an executable with the .scr extension to hide the fact it is an .EXE program that will do something undesirable. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
