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RE: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source
From: "Drew Copley" <dcopley () eeye com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:17:35 -0700
-----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Andreas Gietl Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 4:10 PM To: Drew Copley; full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source On Tuesday 19 August 2003 00:26, Drew Copley wrote: I think it may not be a good idea to send binaries to the list, because lot of companies run antivirus-gateways at their smtp-server and would reject the message, so the recipient would be cut off the information. Today sb sent a copy of the Win32/Nachi-Worm - as i requested - to the list. I got about 20 mails from av-mail-gateways. I did not expect to get the virus on - the - list and especially not sent via mail. Next time i gonna state that in my mail - i apologize for the Inconvenience todays nachi may have caused to you.
As I noted further down, I wanted that binary. Yes, it is nicer and more polite to have it on a website, but it is someone doing someone else a favor. There are very few good places to get copies of virii in the wild (apart from trojans or other such apps you may find on packetstorm, et al). But, a lot of people need copies of these to make firewall signatures, et al. There remains this fear of virii, as there once was more of for security hole information. There should not be, they are in the same class of information.
If anybody is stupid enough to run a binary file from here they deserve any negative consequences which may result from that. Okay, I know other people are thinking that because it is just so true. This said, someone sent a copy of this lastest fixermsblast variant.I appreciated that. But, proper netiquette says to not sendbinariesnor pictures to internet lists (newsgroups or mailing lists). It is best to send by url, such urls are very valuable. (Personally, I have never cared about binaries nor picturesbeing sentas long as their size were small... It is just html email which I hate.)-- e-admin internet gmbh Andreas Gietl tel +49 941 3810884 Ludwig-Thoma-Strasse 35 fax +49 (0)1805/39160 - 29104 93051 Regensburg mobil +49 171 6070008 PGP/GPG-Key unter http://www.e-admin.de/gpg.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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Current thread:
- Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Len Rose (Aug 18)
- Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Raj Mathur (Aug 18)
- Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Len Rose (Aug 18)
- Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source S . f . Stover (Aug 18)
- RE: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Drew Copley (Aug 18)
- RE: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Person (Aug 18)
- RE: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Drew Copley (Aug 18)
- Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Andreas Gietl (Aug 18)
- RE: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Drew Copley (Aug 18)
- Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Andreas Gietl (Aug 19)
- Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Len Rose (Aug 18)
- Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Raj Mathur (Aug 18)
- Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Anthony Saffer (Aug 18)
- Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Stephen Clowater (Aug 19)
- Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 19)
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- Fwd: Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Stephen Clowater (Aug 18)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Jim Race (Aug 18)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 18)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Russell Fulton (Aug 18)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source Ron DuFresne (Aug 18)