RE: offending: question?

["Neil, David M" <neildm@ID.DOE.GOV>]

Actually, in this case, nothing is hidden.  It exploits the fact that .com is the suffix for a command (executable) file as well as for the commercial net domain. 

 

The attachment is an executable file that runs when clicked, and does several "viral" activities.

 

I believe the term is "Trojan horse."

Dave Neil               neildm@id.doe.gov

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Derenzo [mailto:dave@UIC.EDU]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 12:38 PM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: offending: question?

Ruth et. al.,

That's sort of right, but file extensions can be hidden.  So if you name the file virus.txt.exe and hide the .exe extension, you can fool someone into thinking it is a text file.  Clicking on the file then executes the virus program.  Many viruses work that way.

Dave Derenzo, RSO
University of Illinois at Chicago

At 12:48 PM 1/28/02, you wrote:

As I understand, there is no problem in opening the email message---
as long as you do not open any attachments.
Please correct me if this is wrong.   Thanks,   Jerry
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----

From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
To: michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu ; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: offending

Just an additional note:

If I don't recognize the sender of an email, I delete the email without opening it.  Re the latest virus: the title "photos from my party" put me off, so I didn't open it.  So far, this kind of "personal filtering" has worked for me.


Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com

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