full-disclosure - Re: GUNINSKI THE SELF-PROMOTER

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From: madsaxon at direcway.com (madsaxon)
Subject: Re: GUNINSKI THE SELF-PROMOTER

At 10:26 AM 7/15/03 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

>Actually, that's *STILL* impossible.  As far as I am aware of,
>every single "attack when you open the message" virus/worm
>is dependent on the fact that certain mail programs confuse
>the concept of "reading the message text" and
>"executing/interpreting code provided by an attacker".

Unless you want to consider those stupid "forward this to
everyone you know" hoaxes as a form of virus.  Since so many
people blindly follow the instructions, they are in effect
acting as the operating system, executing the payload of the
message.

I like to refer to these as "smart virii." They use human vectors
to propagate, bypassing all anti-virus measures (other than, perhaps,
Bayesian spam filters).

m5x