Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] clever virus trick

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Despite what you say about Mitnick, the guy has balls. If you have not
read his book you should. It is just interesting the way he could get
around people to get the information he wanted. It was interesting how
collecting one piece of innocent information at a time could be turned
into a backdoor pathway into your computer network, or bank account.



On 5/2/06, Christian M. Cepel <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Heh,, Kevin Mitnick (sp?) was hosting that
> nutter/lunatic/alien/conspiracy theory/ghost show 'Coast to coast AM)
> two nights ago.
>
> He may be a genius, but he's also a nutter with a poor grasp on reality.
>
> He was however correct in discussing the new mac vulnerabilities.
>
>
> Vern Green wrote:
> > This is the standard operation for a lot of viruses. Yeah people
> > finally got smart and stopped running executables, then comes this
> > fake batch file thing.
> >
> > Users of all computer systems need to know not to click on
> > attachments. I don't care if you are on Linux, MacIntosh or Windows,
> > if you automatically open up every attachment you receive, then you
> > are going to get a virus.
> >
> > Coincedentally, I found this article in MacWorld particularly
> > interesting last night.
> >
> > http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/01/sans/index.php
> >
> > It looks as if things might start getting a little rocky for Mac users
> > soon.
> >
> > On 5/2/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >> I received an email with subject "My Best Photo" and an attached file
> >> named Photo.zip.  The email text read as follows:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> I want to share my photo with you.
> >> Wishing you all the best.
> >>
> >> The interesting part is what was in the Photo.zip file:
> >>
> >> Archive:  Photo.zip
> >>   inflating: Photo/Photo.bmp
> >>  extracting: Photo/View-Photo.bat
> >>
> >> The file View-Photo.bat consisted of one line:
> >>
> >> Photo.bmp
> >>
> >> The file Photo.bmp was some sort of executable binary file.  When I look
> >> at strings Photo.bmp I see "MS-Outlook" in there, so I think this virus
> >> uses MS Outlook.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I guess this means that Windows will execute a file without
> >> .exe,
> >> .com or .bat extension if it is called from within a batch file.  People
> >> who receive this thing will try to open the Photo.bmp, but that will
> >> fail
> >> because it isn't a proper BMP file, so they will then click the
> >> View-Photo.bat file and they'll be screwed.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
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