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From: simon at snosoft.com (ATD) Subject: A worm... I agree with you 100% but you do realize that the challenge is to educate executives that do not understand, or care to understand security. They just "want it to work". Being an executive myself, I understand that mentality, but I also understand the value of knowledge. On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 10:59, Nexus wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Kruse" <kruse@...sesecurity.dk> > To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:57 PM > Subject: SV: [Full-Disclosure] A worm... > > [snip] > > > malicious code inside the new rar format and spread it. I suppose it?s > > fairly easy to write a worm that packs itself with a random password and > > inserts this into a e-mail sent to the victim. This way it will pass > > most AV-gateway scanners since they won't have access to scan inside the > > zipe archive. > > In that case [the content analysis engine] should automatically quarantine > the attachment and await human intervention. > Otherwise, why bother with them at all ? It's an odd world when the > preferred solution is an application rather than user edumacation. > > Cheers. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20030626/674d80ff/attachment.bin
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