RE: [Full-Disclosure] Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..

From: Brent J. Nordquist (b-nordquist_at_bethel.edu)
Date: 08/20/03

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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:40:00 -0500 (CDT)

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:

    > > For programmers who need to send around executables, please
    > > ZIP them up first.
    >
    > Hint for the new generation of virusmakers: Zip thou virii ;)

    Already done. To name two recent ones, Mimail did this, and Sobig.e had a
    ZIP variant (though it was sometimes hobbled with a .zi extension). They
    slipped right through our checks for Microsoft "unsafe extensions". I'm
    sure it's just a matter of time before this is commonplace. 

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