Worm.VB-8 not detected by filename or filetype
Nerijus Baliunas
nerijus at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jan 18 19:01:19 GMT 2006
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:19:58 +0200 (CAT) Jim Holland <mailscanner at mango.zw> wrote:
> The problem therefore is that the messages themselves are still getting
> through. For the moment I am blocking the following extensions:
>
> .bhx
> .b64
> .hqx
> .uu
> .uue
>
> I presume that a user would have to manually decode these files before
> running the executable within, so infection is not likely to be very
> common.
IIRC Winzip decodes them automatically.
Regards,
Nerijus
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