[ale] New mail trojan (this IS Linux-related)

Frank S. Glass glass at holos.com
Wed Apr 28 11:39:08 EDT 2004


Quoting Fulton Green <ale at FultonGreen.com>:

> I just received in my inbox a message sent from a Czech account
> masquerading as an official EarthLink message with a suspicous payload.
> Unlike most other mail trojans, this payload is in the form of a compiled
> Perl script (assuming that's what the ".cpl" extension stands for).
> 

I'll bite.  How is this Linux related?  Is there some Linux MUA that will run a
script of this form directly or through Perl?

Frank

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