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WSH & Virus Troubles - How do we avoid them?
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05/05/2000 12:37:57
 
 
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05/05/2000 10:25:28
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00366563
Message ID:
00366644
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>I ask this because I'm sitting here more than flummoxed at the notion that someone actually posted the source code to this beast. I fully expect many more variations in the near future since most of the heavy lifting has already been done. Kind of like posting a bomb formula. <g> I question the intelligence of those who did this though I fully understand why they might have done this.
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>Perhaps, if we respond quickly we can avoid these troubles, at least among our community.

UNlike an exe, the source for a vbs virus comes with the virus. Anyone intelligent enough to create the vbs file from the posted code could have done the same thing with the copy of the virus that came in the mail.

Here's how to solve it: make all users know that vbs files should NEVER be opened in an email attachment, and request that all mail servers quarantine all vbs attachments.
Erik Moore
Clientelligence
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