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Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

  • From: Curtis Maurand
  • Date: Mon Mar 01 09:20:23 2004

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Todd Vierling wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Stephen Milton wrote:
> Yah, "Bagle.C" is the notation used by F-Secure.  This is indeed what it
> was.
> 
> It's annoying how easily these things spread even though they don't rely on
> a specific OS vulnerabililty -- hell, it's an executable *in a zipfile*, so
> it requires opening the zipfile and then running the program inside it.  Of
> course everyone will run it, even though it's named dygfwefuih.exe (random
> characters before .exe).  <grumble>

Sure they do....its called COM/DCOM/OLE/ActiveX or whatever they 
want to call it this week.  Its on every windows system.  

> 
> 

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