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Re: [PLUG] ^_^ mew-mew (-:
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On Sunday 09 May 2004 12:54, Bob Schwier wrote:
| My sympathies, but what is the point of this particular spoofer?
| I find that my spoofer managed to get me listed as a spammer.
| Believe me I was not making light of the situation before.
| This looks to be a deconstructed key telling the individual that
| his signature is not safe though I would have expected longer primes
| to be used than 89 and 307.
| bs
The point of any spoof is to appear as someone else. In this particular case,
the virus wishes to appear as a potentially trusted party so that you will be
more likely to open, decrypt and run the attachment in order to yourself
become infected with this particular virus. These viruses are somewhat
ingenious in that, up until very recently, A/V programs could not (and would
not) look inside encrypted Zip files and this was also the transport
mechanism used by A/V employees to pass around virus samples.
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Tobias DiPasquale
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