RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Full-disclosure digest, Vol 1 #1933 - 20

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

What if it copies itself to the wallpaper? 

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> > far-fetched.  Would it be possible to create a jpeg that would copy
itself to other drives on a shared network in an auto-executable
position?  I suppose so... however, it would be noisy and probably
wouldn't be amazingly successful.<<

Picture a company full of users and a worm that copys the jpg file to
\\machinename\c$\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop

you think it might get a few clicks, especially if it had a harmeless
yet tempting name like saturn.jpg

Geo.

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