Re: Attn: Sebastian Gottschalk - you have got a virus

From: Phil Carmody (thefatphil_demunged_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 02/27/04


Date: 27 Feb 2004 15:00:40 +0200


"Andrew Swallow" <am.swallow@eatspam.btinternet.com> writes:

> Attn: Sebastian Gottschalk - you have got a virus.
>
> All the posts you sent today had an attached file containing a virus.
> Please clean it up.

Would you care to show us this virus?
And to explain how it works.

I found it entirely self-explanatory, so a bright chappy like
you should have no problem describing how it works to the rest
of us.

An example of it can be seen, for example, at:
http://google.com/groups?selm=1ll7qbfxtty2d%24.dlg%40news.individual.de

But remember to turn off JavaScript before you load that page, of
course, just in case! ;-)

Phil

-- 
1st bug in MS win2k source code found after 20 minutes: scanline.cpp
2nd and 3rd bug found after 10 more minutes: gethost.c
Both non-exploitable. (The 2nd/3rd ones might be, depending on the CRTL)


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