RE: [HCDX] Attachments to mails

["Horacio A. Nigro" <hanigro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is what happened!:  "An HTML-mail including embedded vbs-script.

Horacio

At 18:58 26/07/00 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> > Wouldn't it be a good idea if HCDX
>> > forbade the use of attachments.  I cannot really see the need to send
>> > anything other than plain text for the sort of traffic we send.
>>
>> I think it's a fine idea.  At Cumbre DX, a reminder has just been issued
>> to contributors that the bulletin does not accept messages with
>> attachments, and that this is precisely to prevent the spread of viruses.
>
>Yes it's a good idea to forbid attachments, but this is not going far enough
>to prevent infection.  We must also ban HTML-mails because they can include
>embedded vbs-scripts.
>
>In fact the attachment from WGTG was a HTML message.  If it had been
>forwarded, instead of attaching it, nobody would notice that it had a
>vbs-script included, before opening or scanning.
>
>I opened it on an outlook 98 mailer (non-express) but was not infected.  I
>got a message that the vbs could not be completed because there was an error
>in the script.  Although, I got that message, I downloaded the newest
>dat-file for my McAfee virscan.  Nothing was found.  But ! if you opened the
>message and got no error-message on one ore another outlook mailer, you are
>most probably infected.
>
>Guido.
>
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