RE: CRIME [Fwd: [Evolution] Definitive comments on LINUX viruses]

From: Kuo, Jimmy (Jimmy_Kuo@private)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 15:36:47 PDT

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    >Outlook can execute viruses if the preview pane is enabled, however. 

True.

>(NCD got hit pretty hard by the "ILoveYou" virus due to this little
>"feature".)

False.  The ILoveYou virus (LoveLetter) does that take advantage of this
exploit.  It took advantage of hidden extensions to make people think that a
file with the double extension of .txt.vbs was a .txt.  So, a user was
enticed to click on it thinking it was a text file when in fact it was a
.VBS file.  All this at a time when .vbs files were not normally scanned.

Jimmy

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