RE: [ok] [Full-Disclosure] Possible Virus/Trojan

[Todd Towles]

I heard about a small thing going around about Bin Laden hanging himself and some CNN reporters had pictures. But it was a virus. I didn’t hear much about it, maybe it is a small time thing and they are just picking people to spread the virus around.   -----Original Message----- From: Edward Ray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 1:53 PM To: 'Todd Towles'; 'Curt Purdy'; 'Mailing List - Full-Disclosure' Subject: RE: [ok] [Full-Disclosure] Possible Virus/Trojan   Got something similar to that a few days ago on another mailing list, informing me Arnold Schwarzenegger hung himself last night.  the file was a *.exe.html, or *.html.exe   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Towles Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 8:03 PM To: 'Curt Purdy'; 'Mailing List - Full-Disclosure' Subject: RE: [ok] [Full-Disclosure] Possible Virus/Trojan I would say that the latter is the more likely, but the message came from a hotmail account. Doesn’t hotmail check attachments? I didn’t look at the headers really so spoofing is possible. I am getting a copy to a research company so I can get some more answers maybe.   -----Original Message----- From: Curt Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 2:07 PM To: 'Todd Towles'; 'Mailing List - Full-Disclosure' Subject: RE: [ok] [Full-Disclosure] Possible Virus/Trojan   Todd Towles  wrote: > I received an e-mail today that looked very much like a virus. Here is the message  > > Attachment – erupts.avi.exe > > Subject – New Southern California wildfire erupts <snip> . > > Either this is a new Trojan that changes it body and subject based on the current  AP  news or someone used a very lame trick against me. =)     I'm guessing the latter.  Although story scraping would be possible, intellegent naming of the .exe would not be.  Most likely a friend... or enemy.   Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions ---------------------------------------- If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- former White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke