] On Tue, 09 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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] > People are too curious nowadays, as this virus prooved.
]
] A curious person would open the attachment in a text editor.
] A careless person executes it.
]
] People are not paranoid enough nowadays, as this virus prooved. ;)
I think that this virus proves more that many people these days are not aware
of the meaning of extensions. They just see an attachment and do not realize
that the .vbs part of the name means that it is a program.
I find it very impudent of the authors of this virus that they do not even
bother to hide that the attachment actually is a program... At least in the
past virus authors assumed that the average user would recognize a program,
so they tried to hide their virusses in word documents (as macros). But now
not any more...
Kind regards,
Alex Wulms
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