[MLUG - DISCUSSION] clever viral trick

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I received a viral message today with an attachment "message.zip", so I
opened the .zip file and saw that there was one file in it:

message.txt                                                                  .pif

note the .pif extension!!  This is a fairly clever trick, I think, to hide
the extension from the user by sticking about 50 spaces in front of it.
It would be easy to think that the filename was "message.txt" and then
open it.

We have finally decided, after some pushing from me, to delete all
incoming executable attachments.  Period.  If someone must e-mail an
executable attachment to our people, they can zip it.  We scan zipped
attachments.

Isn't it amazing that people still fall for this stuff??  Isn't it amazing
that Microsoft designs software that is so exquisitely vulnerable?

Mike
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