Re: Well that's a new trick

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From: Herman Jurjus
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:18

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Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
> I just tried to download Darlele Love's excellent Christmas song, "All 
> Alone This Christmas," with Limewire, and was surprised when it tried to 
> install a virus on my PC.  Normally I'm quite adept at distinguishing the 
> thinl disguised viri from the useful content, but this time the malware 
> designers fooled me.  They managed to make the file lok like it had the 
> correct length for a three minute pop song, and they managed to translate 
> my search string "nobody alone christmas" into "Darlene Love - All Alone 
> This Chritsmas."  I wonder how they did that, and what I should do (besides 
> the obvious of keeping my AV s/w current) to identify the disguised 
> viruses, when I'm downloading with P2P music.

Would you be so kind to remove 'sci.math' for posts like this?
Thank you!

-- 
Cheers,
Herman Jurjus

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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:18:46 +0100
From: Herman Jurjus <hjurjus@hetnet.nl>
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