[Esa-l]You may want to poison "Simpsons Episodes"

Murray Crane mcrane at longbridge.com
Thu Jun 14 02:49:04 PDT 2001


John,

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:12:39 -0700 (PDT), John D. Hardin wrote:

[SNIP]
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>But in v1 it would have to have a specific filename extension.

As a stop-gap measure, would it not be possible to:-

1. Add an extension to all attachments that don't have one (eg '.FOO', by looking for the existance of a period in the filename already), then
2. Mangle/Poison 'Simpsons Episodes.FOO' explicitly.

I can see that a lot of other Mac attachments will get '.FOO', which will certainly confuse the Mac lUsers here, but it would stop this particular Trojan (wouldn't it?)

Murray Crane
Sysadmin
Longbridge International Plc



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