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Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners

  • From: Damian Gerow
  • Date: Wed Dec 03 22:22:15 2003

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Is this in the wild yet?  Any other details worth looking for?  
> Symantec's AV site apparently has nothing on it.

I would say so - I got it in my inbox earlier this afternoon, and I
traditionally get about three viruses a month.

The virus itself is *exactly* like Mmimail.M, as reported by Symantec.
Except that wendy.zip was definitely password protected.

  - Damian