[LINK] Email account utilization warning

[Howard Lowndes]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 07:43, Daniel Rose wrote:
> Perhaps email scanners should "crack" encrypted zip files; the traditional
> password mechansim isn't very strong.
> 
> This would set an interesting situation.  On the one hand it's "naughty" --
> privacy, DMCA etc.
> 
> On the other hand, if you know it's likely to be a virus and you _could_
> open it and check, is it negligent not to?

Perhaps it should be more a case of users not being allowed near a
'puter, let alone email, until they are properly trained and qualified.

Impractical, I know, but most of these recent glut of viruses have been
geared towards socially engineering stupid users.

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Daniel Rose                     62621599
> Postmaster/Helpdesk
> National Library of Australia
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Makin [mailto:carl at xena.ipaustralia.gov.au] 
> Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:29 PM
> To: Link list
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Email account utilization warning
> 
> 
> Hi Tony,
> 
> Antony Barry wrote:
> 
> > It looks like somebody is targeting addresses on the basis of their 
> > Australian second level domain. As I've got a mac (and I assume the 
> > attachment was a windows executable) I couldn't do anything with the 
> > attachment.
> >
> > Anybody seen these? Are they a scam or malicious?
> 
> I got a very similar one here at work stating gov.au rather than edu.au, 
> also with an attachment and the same "password".  I assumed it was a 
> trojan and deleted it.  Interestingly the anti-virus software run on an 
> upstream server didn't pick it up as a virus.
> 
> 
> Carl.
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