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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Curtis Maurand wrote: : > 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. No, my point was that the majority of newer trojan mail viruses don't depend on ActiveX exploits -- they simply wait, dormant, for a n00b to click on this mysterious-looking Zip Folder, and the mysterious-looking EXE inside. It's as if the modern e-mail viruses are closer to human infections. Only the clueful are immune. 8-) -- -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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