On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 04:04:26 PST, D B <geggam692000@yahoo.com> said: > I wish for someone from experience to explain to me > why any virus can infect any mail server / user when > those administrating a mail server can make a mail > server handle mail in the manner I pasted a snippet of The "cannot be represented" wasn't done by the mail server, it was generated that way by MyDoom itself, and is a big chunk of why it was so successful. It *conceals* the fact that it's an executable binary and gives the user a plausible reason why they should open it. > The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII > encoding and has been > sent as a binary attachment. "Wow, I wonder what it is.... <click click>". Social engineering at its finest. :)
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