Re: New MyDoom variant

[Marc Hultquist <marc@xxxxxxxxx>]

We have recently had a few mydoom-o virus's appearing with a file name of 
text.zip. No harm was done, but then seem to be arriving quite alot.

On Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:18, "Elliott C. Bäck" wrote:
>   According to Computer Associates:
>
> "cmd
> bat
> com
> exe
> pif
> scr
>
> The attachment name may also be the e-mail address of the  recipient.
>
> The attachment could also be in a ZIP archive, and can have a "double
> extension", with "doc", "txt", "htm" or "html" followed by many spaces,
> then the real extension."
>
> http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus.aspx?id=39711
>
> Elliott C. Bäck
> ------------------------------------------
> http://www.elliottback.com
> http://www.rso.cornell.edu/sevenspirits/
>
> Paul Kurczaba wrote:
> >What extension does the attachment have (exe, pif, zip)?
> >
> >-Paul
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <albatross@xxxxxx>
> >To: <bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:22 AM
> >Subject: New MyDoom variant

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