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

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:38, Frank S. Glass wrote:
> 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?

Not unless someone has set up a mimetype to do so.

But several folks _do_ run Linux-based mailservers that filter email for
windows clients. 
> 
> Frank
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GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
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