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Message-ID: <000e01c40637$7c44d430$0100000a@MOTHER>
From: yossarian at planet.nl (yossarian)
Subject: Hey, ya! =))

Well, they do give social engineering a try

I got:

Hello user of Planet.nl e-mail server,

Our antivirus software has detected  a large ammount of viruses outgoing
from your email  account, you may use our  free anti-virus  tool  to clean
up
your computer software.

For more information see the attached file.

For security purposes the attached file is password protected.  Password is
"71643".

aMMount?
----- Original Message -----
From: "madsaxon" <madsaxon@...ecway.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Hey, ya! =))

> At 09:12 AM 3/9/2004 -0600, jeremy@...tin.ibm.com wrote:
> >Any virus that is inside a password protected zip file, and that
> >requires the user to type in the password should never have made it to
> >it's 2nd/3rd infection.  This one is social engineering at it's
> >finest..  "Ooooh, a password, what's inside must be secret!"  :^)
>
> I can't really think of any legitimate reason to pwd-zip
> an attachment and then include the pwd in plain text in the
> body.  I think it's safe to assume that any such message is
> malware and discard it as far up the chain as possible.
>
> m5x
>
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