I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password is
included in the text of the message.
Granted, we should hope that our users should be educated enough to not
fall for this, but if we had educated users
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:58:46AM -0500, jef moskot wrote:
I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password is
included in the text of the message.
Any ideas for how to handle this situation?
Would
password-encrypted zip file, and when one is found, attempt decryption using
each word in the body of the message it's attached to as the potential
password.
I would send the password printed in a .gif or .jpg file. Do not forget,
e-mail scannig is only one part of the defense line against
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:58:46 -0500 (EST)
jef moskot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password
ClamAV can handle such attacks as well - if an archive seems to be clear
it
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, jef moskot wrote:
I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password is
included in the text of the message.
Off-hand I don't see this being a large threat. You are counting on people
* Christopher X. Candreva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Dec 04. 2003 15:50]:
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, jef moskot wrote:
I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password is
included in the text of the message.
