Re: [Asrg] Trust relationships etc.

[gep2 at terabites.com]

>>gep2 at terabites.com wrote:
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>>This is another laugh... has anybody ever seen a legitimate, dangerous virus 
>>(the kind that antivirus software might catch, I mean) contained in a PLAIN 
>>ASCII TEXT E-mail?
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>>

> I haven't seen one in a while, but back in the late 90s there were a few 
viruses that came as uuencoded files in a plain text e-mail.  Some 
examples are the Happy 99, Zacker (aka Maldal) and My Party viruses.  
You really cannot make any assumptions that only mime or html emails are 
potentially unsafe.

1)  Are such uuencoded viruses (in the absence of being indicated as encoded 
attachments) actually picked up by these antivirus programs?

2)  If the recipient software doesn't recognize them as an encoded attachment, 
and doesn't offer them enticingly as something for clueless users to click on, 
does it really matter very much?

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