Re: Re: text

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:06 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> *yawn*  So some bozo who reads full-disclosure has a virus, and it scraped
> the listname and Paul's name.  Death of Internet Predicted. Film at 11.

False assumption.  No one on this list has to be infected for this list to 
get a virus.  All it takes is someone who is infected and has the email 
address of a list member on their hard drive - in an addressbook, in their 
browser cache, in a text file they saved from a website, and the virus can 
send email "from" them.  Then all that is left is to have the address of 
the list as well, and the virus can send mail to the list.

However, in this case, *I* sent the "virus".  I had the word "t e x t . p i 
f" in the body of my message (without the spaces, of course), and the 
poorly configured AV scanners "detected" a virus.

If you give that some brief thought, it should appall you that people 
actually *paid* for that software when grep could do the same thing.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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