RE: [HCDX] Attachments to mails

["Enrique A. Wembagher" <eawemb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guido & list !

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: hard-core-dx-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:hard-core-dx-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]En nombre de Guido Schotmans
> Enviado el: Miércoles, 26 de Julio de 2000 13:59
> Para: hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: RE: [HCDX] Attachments to mails
>
>
> Yes it's a good idea to forbid attachments, but this is not going
> far enough
> to prevent infection.  We must also ban HTML-mails because they
> can include
> embedded vbs-scripts.
>
> In fact the attachment from WGTG was a HTML message.  If it had been
> forwarded, instead of attaching it, nobody would notice that it had a
> vbs-script included, before opening or scanning.
>
> I opened it on an outlook 98 mailer (non-express) but was not infected.  I
> got a message that the vbs could not be completed because there
> was an error
> in the script.  Although, I got that message, I downloaded the newest
> dat-file for my McAfee virscan.  Nothing was found.  But ! if you
> opened the
> message and got no error-message on one ore another outlook
> mailer, you are
> most probably infected.
>
> Guido.

I also use Outlook 98 and I didn't receive warnings that my system this
infected (I possess Norton antivirus 2000 and TBAV).
Equally modernize Outl98 in the site of Microsoft update.
I believe should be some script that affects the users of Outlook Express.
Of everything ways believe that the best way to prevent infections is : send
messages in format text and NOT in HTML... the virus uses routines of the
own code html since, and also NEVER ATTACHMENTS.
73´s

Enrique A. Wembagher
Argentina

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