Re: WIERD
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Re: WIERD
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- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:54:07 -0500
Actually, it ain't quite so bad. ;)
Each email from the list has the identical 'from' name -
Makes it easy to pick out the list mail from the spam.
Ken Ames
Quoting <>:
> > A: Sounds like the same "take over" virus that has hit a LOT of Unix based
>
> > website servers over the past few months. EXPL_DHTML.gen is it's name and
> it
> > downloads itself to steal passwords and credit card numbers. I found no
> less
> > than 25 attempted drops of this peckerwood in my XP machine from people my
>
> > wife gets email from. (it actually hides in the HTML of an email and isn't
>
> > an attachment) I finally tracked it down to www.smartbargains(1).com
> cookies
> > in all their machines.
>
> EXPL_DHTML is not a virus, it's a trojan horse. It does not spread
> through email like virii that infect Windoze boxes, and if it did, it
> wouldn't affect Unix web servers. That's not how Unix works. The
> EXPL_DHTML.A proof-of-concept had to be installed intensionally by
> the admin of a malicious web site. The EXPL_DHTML.gen has never been
> seen in the wild, and checks for it have produced a LOT of false positives,
> according to Trend Micro. TM has since removed this definition from their
> dictionary because it was causing too many problems. Your wife should
> update her virus definitions.
>
> And yes, the server misconfiguration has become very annoying.
>
> ObAMCContent: Like Greg, I also want to install the TFI upgrade soon
> on my '77 Wag's 401. I'm only getting about 7.5 mpg lately. It needs
> attention. I'm glad it's not my daily driver.
>
> -- Obi-Wan
> '95.5 YJ, '77 Wag, '78 Wag, '87 GW
>
> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth obiwan@xxxxxxxx
> The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
> Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
> promise that You will pull me through. -- Rich Mullins
>
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