[Esd-l] Trapped poisoned executable

[John D. Hardin]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Paul Thomas wrote:

> I guess I'm not sure why one notice says badstrans and the other
> doesn't or is it really badtrans at all. I happen to know the
> recipient and it wouldn't be unusual for them to receive a nutty
> media file in the mail.

If you've installed the recommended local-rules script, then there are
some signature-based checks for some specific common email worms.
That's where the notice about badtrans comes from.

If a signature-based rule doesn't identify the worm, then the generic
"poison *.SCR" rule traps the message and notifies you, but it can't
tell you which worm it is.

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 John Hardin KA7OHZ    ICQ#15735746    http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/
 jhardin at impsec.org                       pgpk -a jhardin at wolfenet.com
  768: 0x41EA94F5 - A3 0C 5B C2 EF 0D 2C E5  E9 BF C8 33 A7 A9 CE 76 
 1024: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C  AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79
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