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RE: Virus Update

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel Luxemburg)
Thu May 4 17:15:46 2000

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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 14:12:39 -0700
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Mutations have also been spreading.

Look out for messages with a subject line of "fwd: Joke" and an attachment
named "Very Funny.vbs". Aside from the name change it's identical to "I LOVE
YOU".



Rachel

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Roeland Meyer (E-mail)
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 1:40 PM
To: 'Eric A. Hall'; 'Branden R. Williams'
Cc: nanog@merit.edu; bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Virus Update



AFAICT, Frontpage server extentions, under many flavors of *nix, can also
execute VBS files, as can the ChiliSoft ASP stuff.

BTW, VSD files are Visio drawings. You want to block VBS files.



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