Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] clever viral trick

[Michael <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:
>  
>
I've been getting lots of those. Happily my spam filters kill them.

>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?
>  
>
What's amazing is that recently a popular computer magazine I read 
published an article claiming Outlook was the most secure email client 
available.
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