On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Paul Whittney wrote: > I can see a point where the emails come in saying: > "You need to run the file we have sent, please save this file to disk, > rename setup.txt to setup.zip, double click on it, enter the password > 12345, and run setup.exe".
Right. The amount of social engineering to get the encrypted viruses to spread was pretty high, higher than I thought would enable spreading. But they spread anyway. At some point, we will have to secure our desktops, and that basically means trashing Windoze. Even on Linux/UNIX, we'll have to mount /home and /tmp noexec to protect novice users from themselves. -- David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
