Tim Wunder babbled on about: > Declan Moriarty wrote: > > <snip> > > > 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 > > Yep. > It's one of the latest Winders worms, spreading by virtue of an > un-patched MS Outlook. The tell-tale sign is two file extensions that > are different, in the cases above .doc.scr and .mp3.scr. And while .scr > may be a screensaver, I believe that Winders considers it executable and > will run it if asked to by some user clicking on it. > http://antivirus.about.com/library/weekly/aa112401a.htm > Tim
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