RE: [cobalt-users] New email worm / virus.

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we use PC-cillin - real time scan - which I think (notice the word think)
scans for such javascripts on incoming POP3

Whit

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:06:45AM -0400, Gordon wrote:
> I have seen several virus's lately that mcafee won't find, have switched
> to norton...tho i hate the fact it doesn't work unless fully installed..

It's a worm -- none of the AV companies had this kind of thing on
their radars so to speak -- although maybe we'll see heuristics
that check any vbscripts or javascripts to see if they edit file
objects or registry objects?

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