From: Roeland Meyer (E-mail) ("Roeland)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 14:57:25 EDT
most modern mailers wil automagically uudecode.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]On Behalf Of
> Bennett Todd
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 11:19 AM
> To: Eric Conrad
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: uuencoded Love Worm variant
>
>
> 2000-05-05-13:44:16 Eric Conrad:
> > I caught one of these uuencoded 'in the wild'. It would have
> > slipped through my filters if not for the standard Subject: line.
>
> Does anyone know for sure that the uuencoded version isn't actually
> devenomed by the uuencoding? I.e. is there any known gateway that
> will turn the uuencoded attachment back into the known-virulent
> MIME, or any known MUA that will offer to execute the uuencoded
> script with a simple click? If the user has to go out of their way
> to expressly decode the thing into a file, then deliberately execute
> that file, that varient of the worm won't spread like wildfire; I'm
> content to let it pass.
>
> -Bennett
>
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