[Mimedefang] wallon email link viruses

[WBrown at e1b.org]

mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 05/11/2004 01:44:11 
PM:

> There's a virus that uses a technique I've never heard of a virus using
> before.  It sends a link to itself in an HTML email.  Users click on the
> link and then an IE vulnerability allows the virus to install itself.
> 
> http://secunia.com/virus_information/9323/
> 
> Is there a way to use MIMEDefang against this kind of distribution
> mechanism?

Off the top of my head, this is not a new technique to spread viruses.  I 
found Bizex at 
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bizex.worm.html, 
but this one passes through ICQ.  I do recall an email based one though. I 
beleive ClamAV detects it, again, relying on memory that is right now sort 
of tied up in another crisis.