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From
25/07/2001 11:05:39
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
25/07/2001 11:01:30
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00535029
Message ID:
00535045
Views:
16
>Please note the double-extension in this worm. Configure your Windows to show all extensions - a double extension (like MyConfidencialDocument.DOC.EXE) indicates a very high probability of virus infection.

In other words, if you hide extensions (unfortunately the default in Windows), you will see MyConfidentialDocument.DOC.EXE as MyConfidentialDocument.DOC, and think it is only a Word document. Many worms take advantage of this fact. (Of course I am aware that a Word Document can carry a virus, too.)
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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