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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308201334180.22679-100000@kepler.acns.bethel.edu>
From: b-nordquist at bethel.edu (Brent J. Nordquist)
Subject: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@...ix.org> wrote:
> > For programmers who need to send around executables, please
> > ZIP them up first.
>
> Hint for the new generation of virusmakers: Zip thou virii ;)
Already done. To name two recent ones, Mimail did this, and Sobig.e had a
ZIP variant (though it was sometimes hobbled with a .zi extension). They
slipped right through our checks for Microsoft "unsafe extensions". I'm
sure it's just a matter of time before this is commonplace.
--
Brent J. Nordquist <b-nordquist@...hel.edu> N0BJN
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