PC-Pine, I Kiss You

[Nancy McGough]

If you're using PC-Pine and you've got the default Win 98 set up,
then double clicking on this attachment will run this (one-line)
VB script. Of course you wouldn't do that would you?!

In case you don't know about Mahir, you can find out all about
him here:

http://www.kissmahir.com/

I'll be updating my PC-Pine page soon to include info about
avoiding malicious attachments. I've already got some info here:

http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#security

All suggestions are welcome.

From what I've read, it seems to me that if a PC-Pine user
received ILOVEYOU.TXT.vbs and double clicked on it, it would've
destroyed files on the PC, changed the registry, etc. Does anyone
know of a PC-Pine user that ran ILOVEYOU.TXT.vbs? What about
users of other Windows non-Outlook mail clients like Eudora?

Thanks for any info,
Nancy

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Nancy McGough http://www.ii.com Infinite Ink
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[Scott Leibrand]

On Sun, 7 May 2000, Poobah Ben Thar Dun That wrote:

> No way in hell will I run the script. I did look at Mahir's web page though.
> When are you departing for Turkiye, Nancy?

Have you read the .vbs file? It consists of one line:

msgbox "I Kiss You !!!"

Now if that's dangerous, I'll eat my hard disk (lotsa bytes there). :)

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[Poobah Ben Thar Dun That]

On Sat, 6 May 2000 18:12:08 -0400, Nancy McGough
<nm-this-addr...@no.sp.am> wrote:

> This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
> while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.
> Send mail to mi...@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info.
>
>--1439490-6049-957651128=:-390363
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

>--1439490-6049-957651128=:-390363
>Content-Type: APPLICATION/octet-stream; name="IKissYou.TXT.vbs"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
>Content-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0005061812080.-390363@no>
>Content-Description: Message from Mahir to you!
>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="IKissYou.TXT.vbs"
>
>bXNnYm94ICJJIEtpc3MgWW91ICEhISINCg==
>--1439490-6049-957651128=:-390363--

No way in hell will I run the script. I did look at Mahir's web page though.
When are you departing for Turkiye, Nancy?

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The email address is valid. The identity is fictitious.

[Marc D. Williams]

On Sat, 6 May 2000 18:12:08 -0400, Nancy McGough wrote:
>
>If you're using PC-Pine and you've got the default Win 98 set up,
>then double clicking on this attachment will run this (one-line)
>VB script. Of course you wouldn't do that would you?!
>
>In case you don't know about Mahir, you can find out all about
>him here:
>
> http://www.kissmahir.com/
>

Mahir? As in MAD TV Mahir?
Had some buddies over the day that one aired. They cracked up on
the simulated internet video jerkiness.

Sketch TV comes to the Pine newsgroups.

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http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
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