Re: [Full-Disclosure] Hey, ya! =))

At 09:12 AM 3/9/2004 -0600, jeremy@austin.ibm.com wrote:
>Any virus that is inside a password protected zip file, and that
>requires the user to type in the password should never have made it to
>it's 2nd/3rd infection. This one is social engineering at it's
>finest.. "Ooooh, a password, what's inside must be secret!" :^)

I can't really think of any legitimate reason to pwd-zip
an attachment and then include the pwd in plain text in the
body. I think it's safe to assume that any such message is
malware and discard it as far up the chain as possible.

m5x

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Received on Tue Mar 09 13:31:00 2004