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On 11/03/14 12:22, Martin Gautier wrote: > > On 11/03/14 12:07, Paul Sutton wrote: >> 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 >> > 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. > > Martin > > I wonder if someone could reverse engineer the exe file then :) -- -- web : http://www.zleap.net twitter : @zleap14 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam, 8th March 2014 - http://dcglug.drogon.net/torbay-pi-jam/ I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share this commitment. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq