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New virus trick
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25/02/2004 09:00:31
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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Title:
New virus trick
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Beware of new virus tricks.

Most of us here probably know the trick of using a double extension, hoping that the second extension is hidden by default: Sample.txt.exe; the user might see Sample.txt.

Today I got a virus that uses an interesting variation of this trick, with a name like:
test.jpg               .exe
... or some other executable extension. Note that there are lots of spaces in the filename. All this comes within a ZIP file.

The EXE extension might easily be overlooked in this case; it might even be invisible, depending on the column widths in your decompression program.
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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