[ale] email virus? rehash.... with onions

[James P. Kinney III]

That brings up an interesting argument for the eradication of M$ on the
corporate desktop. The viral spreading of confidential information could
be viewed as a bigger security threat than just the headache and hassle
of a network getting trashed by a bug going haywire.

On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 17:55, Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 May 2002 05:29 pm, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 17:07, Cade Thacker wrote:
> > > I cleaned out my mail box the other day, so I don't have the discusion
> > > that you all had the other day, but I just go a bounce back of an email I
> > > did not send. Attached is a small file that "file" returns the following:
> > >
> > > border.bat: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
> > >
> > > What was the summary of this puppy? something to do with W32/Klez?
> >
> > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.gen@mm.htm
> 
> Thanks for the confirmation.
> It's interesting to take a look at the third (random, I guess) 
> file that is attached to those worms. Using khexedit or similar,
> I have found html, jpg's, and a "confidential" business report 
> so far.
> 
> We need smarter worms, which can look for pictures of "girlfriends"
> to send out :p
> 
> Regards,
> Irv
> 
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