Re: Christina Aguilera caught back stage NUDE - Yerrrr. VIRUS ALERT AGAIN. SEE THE OTHERS!!!!!

From: nemo (nemo_at_naughtylass2.wet)
Date: 04/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:01:39 GMT

Haines Brown <brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> wrote in message
news:87r7ummrjs.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com...
> MartinDB <spammy@webtribe.net> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:02:10 GMT, "nemo" <nemo@naughtylass2.wet>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Dont' open the scr file.
> > >
> > Oh please, do we really need x-posted warnings? If people are dumb
> > enough to get infected, ***-em.
> > --
> > Martin.
>
> Off topic (but thread is OT anyway), but I'm filtering out and
> automatically deleting any messages contining a MIME header type .scr.
> I don't automatically un-mime in rmail, and expeience has been that
> that such messages are always virii.
>
Good idea. I'll try that.

> Are there ever legitimate attachments named with the .scr extension?
>
> --
> Haines Brown
> brownh@hartford-hwp.com
> kb1grm@arrl.net
> www.hartford-hwp.com
>

There are a couple of screensaver newsgroups but elsewhere genuine posts of
screensavers are pretty rare. Usually the fact that the *.scr extension is
also used for scripts is used to disguise viri as screensavers.