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Re: The whole idea behind a screen saver



On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:33:48 -0500, "Donkey Agony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>Al Klein wrote:
>
>>> hehehe yeag the clue in is the .scr extension
>>> if it ends in:
>>>
>>> .exe
>>> .bat
>>> .com
>>> .scr
>>> .dll
>>> .vbs
>>> .vb
>>> .pif
>>>
>>> (is that all of them ?)
>
>> .vb isn't executable, unless you've modified your file associations.
>> I doubt that a dll is executable.  And I can't think of any you left
>> out.
>
>Y'all forgot .js ...

.vb and .dll can both screw you in an email... There are at least two
trojans that look for things like this for their instructions.
Probably more out there as well that acts like this.



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