@#$@#$ When will people learn about the dancing bunnies/bears...

Yeah, I said I was on vacation, but this is SO depressing.  I just saw this on the front page of MSNBC.COM.

It describes a new varient of Sober, which is forwarded as an executable contained in a .ZIP file.

I wrote about the issue back in July, but it's still depressing/annoying to see things like this still going around.

 

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled turkey-day.

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 22, 2005
  I thought it was "dancing pigs". Dancing bears are for deadheads.
  
  For "dancing bunnies" your blog comes in second on both MSN Search and Google.
  
  A little turkey might mellow you out. Have a more relaxing Thanksgiving.
  
  - Drew

• Anonymous
  November 22, 2005
  People will just never learn.

• Anonymous
  November 23, 2005
  I find it a little embarrassing to explain to friends/neighbors why, with the technology we work in, SPAM and bunnies are still around. I try analogies like in the real world, you can move away from war zones. In cyberspace, everyone lives together ... perhaps this is a good human nature exhibit. I digress ... we should take heart. We already have under our noses one solution in practice … game consoles. Dedicated function, updateable from a central source, and viola, no viruses. Tradeoff … can’t run anything you want.

• Anonymous
  November 23, 2005
  No dancing Turkey? I'm very disappointed.

• Anonymous
  November 23, 2005
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• Anonymous
  November 23, 2005
  Oh yeah, and Happy thanksgiving Larry!!!

• Anonymous
  November 23, 2005
  Outlook already blocks access to file attachments with executable suffixes.
  
  How hard would it be to block access to .zip attachments containing .exe's?
  
  Even if a .zip file is encrypted, the list of contents is still available.

• Anonymous
  November 23, 2005
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• Anonymous
  November 23, 2005
  Users will never learn. If user education actually worked, we wouldn't need things like phishing filters in our browsers. ;)

• Anonymous
  November 23, 2005
  The one that someone sent my wife didn't look like dancing bunnies, it looked like a bounce of undeliverable mail. That came about a day after she had received a real bounce of real undeliverable mail, and around three weeks after a previous real bounce of real undeliverable mail. Fortunately she didn't recognize the sender's name and she asked me for help. Now suppose the forged sender's name had been someone she knew.

• Anonymous
  November 23, 2005
  Turkey-day?? As in "it is hard to fly with the eagles when you work with turkeys"? ;-)

• Anonymous
  November 28, 2005
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