On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Augusto Pizarro wrote:

> Sorry guys,
> 
> my e-mail virus scanner script left an virus scape, so I have added a text
> based rule. But I forgot and have sended to the list an email containg the
> exact sequence that I am blocking. Sorry.
> 
> My question is:
> whats the "begin" command do in OE and whats the exact sintax? One friend of
> the list sad that you have to put a double space after the "begin" but the
> virus I have received have:
> "begin" 1 space the number "666" another space and the name of the suposed
> attached file.

Two totally different issues.

Issue 1 - OE and Outlook proper have a bug, whereby any mail that contains 
the fragment 'begin  ' at the start of a sentence gets mangled.  Their mail 
parser treats 'begin  ' as a UUEncode delimiter.

Issue 2 - begin 666 filename   indicates UUEncoding.  Just a way for the 
worm to pass itself around - it predates MIME encoding.


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