I suppose many virus writers don't know DOS email software exists. It doesn't
take any great sophistication to write a VBS virus, from what I hear.
I received an EXE base64 attachment from [EMAIL PROTECTED], did anybody else
get that spam? Subject was
Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
Attachment name was joke.exe
Naturally I didn't run it. Who knows, it might trash the hard drive. It could
be the rare instance of an email attachment that runs and does damage under DOS.
The message before the attachment was badly spelled:
Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and
polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a
*huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the Seven
Dwarfs enter...
(attachment followed, not quoted here)
Computer users who are very educated don't run strange email attachments!