In message <v0422081bb4880c540f71@[209.239.169.197]>,
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Unfortunately, the bad news is that we have a new virus on the
>internet that is propogating rapidly.
>
>For more information, see
><http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.newapt.html> for the
>official score on this beast. But basically, once it infects a system
>(it infects windows boxes), when an infected user receives e-mail,
>the virus mails itself back out, and attempts to infect the sender of
>the message.
>
>If you run windows, you are susceptible to this worm, and you may, in
>fact, be infected and passing the infection on to other list members
>and anyone else sending you e-mail.
This is indeed a worm.
Its timing is interesting. I was just sitting around wondering the other
day how long it would be before someone cooked up something exactly like
this. (Is it fair to characterize this as being, roughly speaking, the
Windoze equivalent of the Morris Worm?)
I have a simple question regarding this thing, and I think that it is
relevant to this mailing list. I'm sure that the subject of e-mail
attachments (and what to do about them) has been discussed here before.
This question is just this: What can be done, and/or what should be done
at the mail server level to combat these kinds of things? Is it possible
and/or desirable to somehow elide or munge, at the very least, executable
e-mail attachments as they pass through a mail server in order to render
them less likely to cause harm?
One other question: Is it fair to assume that this thing can also be
spread via mailing lists?
