[65648] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Priyantha)
Thu Dec 4 10:49:25 2003
From: "Priyantha" <priyantha@wightman.ca>
To: "'Mike Tancsa'" <mike@sentex.net>,
"'Jamie Reid'" <Jamie.Reid@mbs.gov.on.ca>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:47:57 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20031203222329.08eef988@209.112.4.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> At 09:53 PM 03/12/2003, Jamie Reid wrote:
>
> The other thing that worries me is that those who rely on
> their ISP to scan
> for viruses, a false sense of security can come into play.
> In the case of
> these types of email viruses, the user might think the file
> is OK because
> it was scanned.
The AVScanner should indicate that the file couldn't scan because it is
password protected and hence opening the file may be risky.
Priyantha
