full-disclosure - A worm...

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From: nexus at patrol.i-way.co.uk (Nexus)
Subject: A worm...

----- 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.