[65663] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Chin)
Thu Dec 4 16:39:13 2003
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:38:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Christopher Chin <cchin@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200312042008.hB4K84ps013241@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Today at 15:08 (-0500), Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:08:04 -0500
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
> To: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners
>
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:52:10 PST, Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net> said:
>
> > Common sense, in these times shows you to not open emails from strangers
> > especially with *.zip files unless they are coming from a known party based on
> > some kind of dialog prior to it being sent and received.
>
> Common sense always loses when fighting against the promise of dancing hampsters.
Empirically speaking, common sense does not appear to
be common at all. ;-)
