I haven't had time to do much looking into this wormy, but can anyone who
has expound on the mechanism for making the .zip appear with an icon that
denotes a text file? I understand that was part of the gag, but one copy of
it I saw using Mozilla Mail did not display it in this misleading manner.
Thanks,
Ben
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 03:55:33 +0000 (UTC)
horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| In reply to:
|
| > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:09:32 -0800
| > From: Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| ...
| > It is a .zip file, AFAIK.
| >
|
| Yup, I used 'strings' to inspect the baby I got, called document.zip in my
| case, but names don't matter.
|
| sdf:~:$ strings -n 2 document.zip |head -5
| PK
| <0
| document.scrMZ
| PE
| UPX0
|
| # PK identifies the zip file
| # .src -- expand to screen saver executables (I think?)
| # MZ starts various DOS executables
| ---------------
|
| sdf:~:$ strings -n 2 document.zip |tail -20
| WH
| wwx
| wx
| wx
| ;{w
| KERNEL32.DLL
| ADVAPI32.dll
| MSVCRT.dll
| USER32.dll
| WS2_32.dll
| LoadLibraryA
| GetProcAddress
| ExitProcess
| RegCloseKey
| memset
| wsprintfA
| PK
| <0
| document.scrPK
| *X
| sdf:~:$
|
| # the end of PK zip files have the names of files zipped up...
| # ... here we see some potent Win32 .dll and more.
|
| Cheers ............................. Horst
|
|
| > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:38:00 -0800
| > nyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >
| > | On Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:57 am, Nyal wrote:
| > |
| > | Just checked my mail and was also lucky enough to receive a copy. I'm
| > | using Kmail so when I saw the "Hi" subject I looked at the headers and
| > | everything in plain text.
| > |
| > | After the regular header type stuff is a whole boatload of fruit salad
| > | (letters, numbers, symbols, etc) no line breaks. Just curious as to
| > | what(if anything) all the mumbo-jumbo meant. Any ideas, O Great
| > | Gurus??
| > |
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