North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: uuencoded Love Worm variant
most modern mailers wil automagically uudecode. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Bennett Todd > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 11:19 AM > To: Eric Conrad > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: uuencoded Love Worm variant > > > 2000-05-05-13:44:16 Eric Conrad: > > I caught one of these uuencoded 'in the wild'. It would have > > slipped through my filters if not for the standard Subject: line. > > Does anyone know for sure that the uuencoded version isn't actually > devenomed by the uuencoding? I.e. is there any known gateway that > will turn the uuencoded attachment back into the known-virulent > MIME, or any known MUA that will offer to execute the uuencoded > script with a simple click? If the user has to go out of their way > to expressly decode the thing into a file, then deliberately execute > that file, that varient of the worm won't spread like wildfire; I'm > content to let it pass. > > -Bennett >
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