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On 11/03/14 12:07, Paul Sutton wrote:
Coincidentally I had one of those court case spams arrive this morning. The attachment is a zip (which will open in Linux) and contains an exe. Without Wine, this exe will fail.On 11/03/14 11:08, Brad Rogers wrote:On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:46:55 +0000 Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Neil,That is what I thought. So what would happen, it would just sit there and do nothing, or an error message perhaps? Not that it matters, I have no plans to do anything with such rubbish except trash it.I've never done it either so can't be sure what'll happen, but suspect you'll see a little disk activity as the OS tries to run the program, and fails. IDK what you'd see if you tried running the program from a shell, but reckon there's be lots of error messages.If you are going to attempt to run from a shell surely you would be betted off opening it in a text editor and seeing what it is going to do, I think a few of these attachments must have some sort of webby type script in them as some seem to grab your address book for example or connect to a remote host or so I have read. If you have web mail (IMAP) maybe worth booting a live cd, then looking at the e-mail with that, maybe even open in a text editor and putting the contents somewhere so people here can have a look, If nothing else we may learn something about what these people are trying to do. Paul
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