[ale] New mail trojan (this IS Linux-related)

Fulton Green ale at FultonGreen.com
Wed Apr 28 13:52:19 EDT 2004


I guess the virus writers figured out that firewalls were filtering out
the PIFs and "screensavers" (.scr files), so they went with something
else.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:34:36PM -0400, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> Let's not forget thaty all those little applets in your Winblows control
> panel are *.cpl files.  This is another extension tha will run, should
> it get clicked on a Winblows box.
> 
> I'd say we're being *too* smart for the virus folk with this thread.  ;)



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