Re: virus extensions

From: Wild Wizard (michael@techdrive.no.spam.please.com.au)
Date: 03/30/02 

From: Wild Wizard <michael@techdrive.no.spam.please.com.au>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 09:10:03 GMT

Yan Seiner wrote:

> OK, so this is a bit off-topic. What are the most common file extensions
> for carrying viruses? I'm checking tar, tgz, gz, zip, exe, and vbs. Any
> others out there that I should be checking?
>
> --Yan

dll, bat, com, doc, xls, xlt, its a really long list ...... 

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