On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:37:33PM -0400, Adam Back wrote:
Heh, heh. Guess who uses outlook :-)
Endless source of amusement as a linux user watching the VB script worms play out. I think you actually have to click on this one, though the double extension helps as many users won't see the 2nd .vbs, just the .jpg.
The double extension doesn't hide the .VBS - that's just Microsoft's usual "hide the extension since the couch-potato user doesn't want to see how the magic works" feature. The trick with double extensions is that after Explorer or Outlook hides the .VBS, the user sees the ".JPG" and says "Oh, this is a picture, I'll click on it", instead of "Hmmm, this is something I don't recognize, better leave it alone." Similar tricks are used for .doc.vbs, .xls.vbs, .txt.vbs, etc. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639