{"id":583,"date":"2004-12-02T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T09:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:31","slug":"my_wifes_new_lo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/02\/my_wifes_new_lo\/","title":{"rendered":"My wife&#8217;s new look."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can see her after her makeover by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/vinfo\/images\/worm_mugly_a_img1.gif\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(She knew she had this coming! <grin>)<\/p>\n<p>I came home last night to find out that she&#8217;d opened an email from a &#8220;secret admirer&#8221;.  This ended up infecting our workstation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/vinfo\/virusencyclo\/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MUGLY.A\">W32\/Mugly.b<\/a> worm &#8211; which is a mass mailing SDBot variant.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it was released in the wild just yesterday, and our virus scanning software, <a href=\"www.avast.com\">avast!<\/a>, had not yet updated itself with definitions that included it.<\/p>\n<p>There are some further things that failed that shouldn&#8217;t have.  ASSP should have blocked the attachment, and our email server&#8217;s own virus scan software, ClamAV, would have had a go at it also before it finally came through to our workstation.  (But its own definition files might have been too slow too.)<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that your virus software will <i>always<\/i> protect you against whatever you do with strange incoming email is never the best policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can see her after her makeover by clicking here&#8230; (She knew she had this coming! ) I came home last night to find out that she&#8217;d opened an email from a &#8220;secret admirer&#8221;. This ended up infecting our workstation with the W32\/Mugly.b worm &#8211; which is a mass mailing SDBot variant. Apparently, it was &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/02\/my_wifes_new_lo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;My wife&#8217;s new look.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}