On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:37:23 +0000, Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
> Hi to all
> A few weeks ago I received an email plus a GIF-attachment.
> But the attachment was not a normal attachment... but a virus disguised
> as a GIF-image.
> Arachne should show a GIF or JPG image automagicaly but she did not this
> time...
> Looking into the file (a whole lot of ASCII codes) showed not the usual
> GIF87a or GIF89a label at the start of the file. So this was not a GIF
> image but something else!
> This was a .exe file for Windows. DOS rejected it.
> Next thing I did was sending this attachment to the Virus Hunters of
> Norman Virus Control (packet as a .ZIP).
> They confirmed my suspicion...
> One of the things I love Arachne for is that she is in DOS, so all that
> virussus meant to corrupt Windows don't do their destructive job.
Even if it really is indeed a Windows EXE file, which it does appear
to be, there would probably be no way you could run the virus program,
even if you were running Windows, unless you were to first rename the
file so as to change the GIF extension to EXE.
Sam Heywood
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