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Date:	Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:38:57 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: forged Failure Notice

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In <3F10504F.C6D6B09F@pacbell.net>, on 07/12/03
at 10:14 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>Not all that new. I've seen plenty of variations on this gambit, over
>the last 3 years.

True. There's really very few new attach methods, but there's been a
definite uptick in the percentage of this one lately.

>Those I can't take a chance on, and just have to inspect, but I
>do so by reading
>the raw Inbox mail file with ZTree, which isn't going to execute
>anything.

If I even bother to read them, I read them in my mailer. The chance of a
WinXX virus attachment executing on this OS/2 box is 0.

>product, which is the whole point of 99.9 % of Spam. Anyway, usually the
>midi
>attachments I'd get were so very small, it couldn't be much of a tune,
>and probably not
>that much of a virus, either.

How small is small? 50KB is more than enough for a virus.

Steven

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