>FWIW, the subject line is hard coded into the virus. That said of course,
>the virus code is easily extractable and thus can be simply altered to
>bypass such filters.
Yup, looks easy enough to change. I don't recognize the language
(something akin to Basic, perhaps), but could probably reverse-engineer
enough of it from that code snippet to play with it myself, if I wanted
to waste time doing that sort of thing. (IMO it's rather pointless,
since users of Microsoft Word already *have* viruses on their system --
W95, W98, Word, Office, etc. :)
>The point about any "fix" of this nature is that people like to do something
>quickly and worry about a "pure" solution later on. Rumour has it that
>Microsoft's quick fix was to shut down their Internet mail servers...
Not just rumor. CNBC reported that earlier today (around lunchtime).
Saw it myself.
I just looked at this "virus". It's some kind of code. Like I assumed,
when I first saw the TV reports on it.
So, indeed, the problem is just that some people stupidly use MUA's
that, when you "open" an email (aka "read it"), they decide to execute
whatever code they can determine is included (via attachment, whatever),
without restricting the environment for such code.
There's no real prevention for this sort of problem, other than no longer
using MUA's that behave like that.
Or am I missing someting?
tq vm, (burley)
