[pmmail-list] newlines in filters? -- Sircam virus/worm

[Lueko Willms]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 16:50:14 -0500, Dave Hathaway wrote:

> >It's so big because it grabs random files to infect and pass on ...
> >(imagine some *sensitive* document being sent around the world)
> 
> I have plenty of sensitive documents less than 10K in size. :)  I also 
> have some, er, *very* sensitive code bigger than 200K.  How big is the 
> worm code?  :)

  See more information on Sircam@mm: 

  http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html

  On this page you also find a link to a downloadable tool removing
the virus from your PC once infected. 

  I can't resist to complain that the weak point those worm-viruses
attack is that on Microsoft Windows, the OS only offers "open" as an
action to view a file, and "open" means both "execute" and "view",
without a difference. 

  The default action on foreign files should be "view" excluding any
execution of code in the file, not "execute". 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms 
Frankfurt/Main 
/ Lueko.Willms@T-Online.de 

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