Re: Using Magic Values along with filetype to find malicious files (was RE: Google Malware Search)

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 7/17/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:45:07 EDT, Dude VanWinkle said:
>
> > Still, AV was around then, and for some reason i feel w3.org should be
> > a site that didnt allow viruses in its mailing lists, public or not
>
> You must be the only guy who's never had a virus get by before your A/V
> vendor ships a signature update.  Now go back, check *that* posting's date,
> and what it was infected with, and if it was something that most of the
> major vendors had been catching for a reasonable amount of time, *then*
> you can point fingers.

I never allowed .pif attachments :-)

If someone wants to share a file, email is not the best way to do it.

-JP<who blocked a lot of attachments>

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