> Do spammers ever send '.pif', '.exe' or '.scr' files Do they ever send zippedfiles? Or are all of these most likely to be Windows viruses?
I'm starting to wonder... My localhost account is being hit daily by mails containing what appear to be infected attachments. It looks to me like another worm, similar in behaviour to MyDoom but just using different mails, is on the rampage now. I'd have to go research into it.
There are several variants of Bagle, Netsky, and Sober floating around. There was a new one announced just today. Each sends an attachment of some sort around.
But it suggests that lots of infected machines have my address, and that I find a bit hard to believe - it's not an address that I use a lot. But my machine was soon spidered heavily when I set up the Web site on it, so spammers had plenty of chance to get my address that way (and generally didn't).
My biggest headache are not spams or viruses sent directly to me, but undeliverable mail bounces and warnings of virus in emails that were sent in my name. Most are actually not for my personal account but public accounts like postmaster and webmaster. These emails are quite similar to virulent emails in content, so I have to watch out, but most have the attachments stripped.
I don't really recall seeing those attachments in any spam, though - they're generally virus attachments in my experience.
I haven't yet seen spam, pure spam, that had executable attachments. Pictures at most.
Robert
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