Well, if the virus is forging the from, a user receives the zipped file,
sees it is from [EMAIL PROTECTED], says to himself hey, I know Joe, he
must have sent me a joke, opens the zip and away we go.

John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Todd Holt
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:07 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] MyDoom.o's slipping through.
> 
> Is it not true that EXEs in zip files are inert until opened by the user?
> We don't ban EXEs in zips because our users sometimes need to receive EXE
> files, but we constantly remind them to not open anything that is not
> verified (content expected from the sender).
> 
> What do most admins do about this problem?
> 
> Todd
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Tolmachoff
> (Lists)
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 1:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] MyDoom.o's slipping through.
> 
> Why are you not banning executable files within zip files?
> 
> John Tolmachoff
> Engineer/Consultant/Owner
> eServices For You
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of Chris Patterson
> > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:42 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] MyDoom.o's slipping through.
> >
> > Thanks, I was not aware of the /ARCHIVE=5.  I have adjusted that, here
> > is my current cfg line:
> >
> > C:\Progra~1\FSI\F-Prot\F-Prot.exe /TYPE /SILENT /NOMEM /ARCHIVE=5
> > /NOFLOPPY /NOBOOT /DUMB /REPORT=report.txt
> >
> > If there is something I am missing, please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris Patterson, CCNA
> > Network Engineer
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:25 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] MyDoom.o's slipping through.
> >
> >
> > >I have had two reports in the last 2 days about a virus coming through.
> > >
> > >The customer forwarded these to me on an Exchange mailbox using Mcaffee
> > >which identified them as MyDoom.o.  Tracing the Logs, they were scanned
> > >and Deemed Virus Free using Prescan.
> >
> > Given that it is in a .ZIP file, and you are using F-Prot, do you have
> > "/ARCHIVE=5 " in the SCANFILE line in the \IMail\Declude\virus.cfg
> > file?  If it is just "/ARCHIVE ", you should change it to "/ARCHIVE=5 ",
> >
> > due to a bug in the latest version of F-Prot.
> >
> >                                                     -Scott
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