It's a case of 'social engineering'. One variation of the virus text file claims to be 'administrator at your isp' with the text 'the attachment is password protected for your security'. Gee, my ISP is trying to protect me- so it must be ok!'
Remember the 'Land Shark' skit on Saturday Night Live? Everyone knew better than to open that door to a total stranger, but once Chevy muttered 'Candygram!'- oh, that's different so it must be ok! And how many people responded to the email with the latest security updates? Gerry. From: "andyb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > These are stupidity virus...and so they spread. > > From: "Doug Traylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Isn't this virus fairly safe as it requires someone to actually open the > > attachment(.zip) then enter a password to open the virus infected file? > > > > I don't understand why so many people are getting infected from the zip > > files as it seems you have to really want to open it to be infected. Not > as > > easy as those viruses that exploited the Outlook Express preview pane and > > execute just by looking at the email. > > > > Doug To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
