RE: yet another worm

I think this is a good idea.

After the Beagle.AG hit, I sent out an e-mail to ASD staff and identified
most of those same extensions.
I suggested they tape it to their monitor for fast reference. Time will
tell .......

At 11:59 AM 7/26/2004, Eric Chamberlain, CISSP wrote:
>Should the campus discuss appending a warning message or blocking
>attachments that end with: .exe, .com, .bat, .cmd, .pif, .scr, .vbs, .js,
>and .wsf?
>
>--
>Eric Chamberlain, CISSP
>Campus Active Directory Architect
>Central Computing Services
>University of California, Berkeley
>http://calnetad.berkeley.edu
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-micronet-list@lists.berkeley.edu
>[mailto:owner-micronet-list@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Bernie Tower
>Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 11:47 AM
>To: micronet-list@lists.berkeley.edu; magnet-list@lists.berkeley.edu
>Subject: [Micronet] yet another worm
>
>Hey Everyone,
>
>Just in case you weren't already painfully aware, a new strain of the
>MyDoom hit the campus. We do have updated signatures for it and are
>filtering, however a few did manage to sneak through. The message
>states that the user's computer is infected and to click on the
>attachment. Because of the big worm scare last week, we are worried
>that some users may consider this an official message and click.
>PLEASE spread the word and not allow them to do that!!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bernie Tower
>CalMail Consulting
>
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