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Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners

  • From: Christopher Chin
  • Date: Thu Dec 04 16:40:49 2003

Today at 15:08 (-0500), [email protected] wrote:

> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:08:04 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: Henry Linneweh <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners
>
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:52:10 PST, Henry Linneweh <[email protected]>  said:
>
> > Common sense, in these times shows you to not open emails from strangers
> > especially with *.zip files unless they are coming from a known party based on
> > some kind of dialog prior to it being sent and received.
>
> Common sense always loses when fighting against the promise of dancing hampsters.

Empirically speaking, common sense does not appear to
be common at all.  ;-)