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« on: May 20, 2005, 10:44:25 PM »
The bogus e-mail contains an attachment that purports to be a cumulative Windows patch for May 2005. It's actually an executable file for a well-known virus.

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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2005, 01:42:10 AM »
quoting from the article:

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infect every PE and SCR file on every drive and network share.

Qu'est ce c'est?

Hmm...I don't believe the writer of the article was a big Explorer fan ::)

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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2005, 02:06:45 AM »
Windows files that end with .scr are screensavers. And PE files consist of the ones ending with .exe and .dll, ActiveX controls, and several other Windows executable formats.
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