full-disclosure - Sober.I worm is here

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From: RBowes at gov.mb.ca (Bowes, Ronald (EST))
Subject: Sober.I worm is here

How does it infect somebody if it's using a .txt file?

Ron Bowes
Information Protection Centre
Government Of Manitoba
204-945-1594

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny [mailto:nocmonkey@...il.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:07 AM
To: KF_lists
Cc: etomcat@...email.hu; full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Sober.I worm is here

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:22:31 -0500, KF_lists <kf_lists@...netops.com> wrote:
> can you define "medium sized epidemic"?
> Any new features / functionality?

Not too much, except for the fact that it also arrives with the
following attachment extenstions: .doc, .txt, and .word

Which are not typically blocked by layer 7 aware firewalls. Whereas,
the biggies .scr, .pif, .exe, .com, .bat, etc., are usually blocked.

...D

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