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Article #22761Re: Has anyone received the new "I LOVE YOU" Virus email yet ?
From: 'Dungeon' Dave
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 00:00
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.. and it came to pass that Andrew Brydon <andrew@isbjorn.dem on.co.uk> uttered forth: > >Ah yes, but those clever virus people could send an .exe renamed to >.zip or to .gif etc. Then what would happen... .. your favourite imaging program would attempt to open virus executable code as a picture and display a pretty chaotic fractal image. I changed the LoveLetter.TXT.VBS to a plain .TXT extension in order to view the source - and then realised that it was a worm. Renaming the file extension to something else to hide its purpose will also change its functionality to some extent. (try changing command.com to command.exe and then run it - you'll see what I mean) > -- "Dungeon" Dave, in anti-harvest mode... From: abuse@yahoo.com From: abuse@btinternet.com From: *@localhost
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