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From: madsaxon at direcway.com (madsaxon)
Subject: Mydoom

At 10:08 AM 1/28/2004 +1300, Nick FitzGerald wrote:

>That page does not specifically address the "zip attachment" form at
>all, and to the extent that it does mention .ZIP extensions it (_quite_
>incorrectly) implies that the virus' executable is simply packaged with
>such an extension.  In fact, if it sends itself with a .ZIP extension,
>Mydoom sends itself as a proper zip archive that contains a "stored"
>(i.e. not compressed) copy of its executable.

Two of the copies I've gotten have been proper .zip archives (with
.zip extension) which contained a UPX compressed executable,
many of whose ASCII strings were further obfuscated with ROT-13.

m5x