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Offline Lars-Erik

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Sneaky virus mail...
« on: April 18, 2004, 05:59:14 PM »
Hmmm... What's the point including tags showing that a message is clean when they fake the tags as well :-)

Attachment: \details.txt                                                                     .pif   Virus: Win32:Netsky-P [Wrm]   Moved to chest
Attachment: \letter43.zip   Virus: Win32:Netsky-P [Wrm]   Moved to chest

lovely, :-)

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 avast! antivirus (0416-3, 04/17/2004), Inbound message INFECTED:
 \details.txt                                                                     .pif (Win32:Netsky-P [Wrm]) Moved to chest, \letter43.zip (Win32:Netsky-P [Wrm]) Moved to chest
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Offline igor

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Re:Sneaky virus mail...
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2004, 09:56:29 AM »
Of course, a simple few lines of text can be faked. If you considered it a big additional security, then it's certainly not. Some users want to have them anyway, however... (so, that is the point  ;D)
« Last Edit: April 19, 2004, 09:56:58 AM by igor »