[65665] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. Benjamin Kessler)
Thu Dec 4 16:51:00 2003
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From: "R. Benjamin Kessler" <bk-lists@kesslerconsulting.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:48:37 -0500
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0312041336180.19799@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
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> >
> > > 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. ;-)
>
>
Quite so; as I always like to say:
"Common sense is not a common virtue"[1]
[1] Apologies to Adm. Nimitz and the Marines on Iwo Jima
