Bugtraq: Re: new WIN virus?

["pna.lists" <pna.lists () seznam cz>]

Isn't this a perfect way how to release a new worm into the wild? Hyperlink
in a Bugtraq message/archive is a really innovative virus distribution
vector. Everybody else submits the suspicious files the the antivirus
companies.

> i don't know much at all about windows, but this spam got past my spam
> filter and drew my attention. i tested the suspect file in some on-line
> virus checkers, and they all reported the file as not being a threat.
> looking at the page that the spam requested (hidden after "@" in the link)
> i can only think that the file is up to no-good.
>
> the original spam, the page that it requests, and the suspicious "exe"
> file:
> http://smasher.suspicious.org/tmp/live-virus.tgz