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Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Wed Dec 3 20:57:42 2003

Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:01:50 -0500
To: "J. Oquendoy" <sil@politrix.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0312031745300.3378@kungfunix.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



At 05:52 PM 03/12/2003, J. Oquendoy wrote:
>Hell it would have been nice for MS to invest in creating safer products
>as opposed to paying `bounty hunters'.

This is a total social engineering issue... Not much different than the 
"wallet inspector" asking to check your wallet.  More clever, but the same 
thing in the end.

         ---Mike 


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