The Register has an article about a new virus that is doing the rounds via outlook (when are they going to sort this email app out?
three extensions in order to bypass security of the application. For example the attachment would be called “picture.jpg.exe.jpg”. Outlook uses the last extension to display the picture icon, the middle extension to know what to do with it (ie run the program) and the first extension is what the user see’s – ie a picture. They click on it and boom – they are infected. I really hope we can get our anti-virus software working on our mail server soon due to the way the powers that be decided to install anti-virus! (Dont bother scanning emails on the client as the server does it and the client scans it at a file level – no thought to what would happen if the mail server stopped scanning though…..
