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Old 15-Mar-2004, 22:53
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.mim ??


What are .MIM files? Can one contain viruses?
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Old 16-Mar-2004, 20:10
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MIM = MIME encoded file

Not sure if this type can as I don't know alot about MIME but most any file can contain a virus. As you can see this virus spoof the from field so it may be easly mistaken for a MIM and not be. Your best bet is to use something like Norton and scan the file before you open it.

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W32.Galil.F is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine or Microsoft Outlook to spread.
It harvests email addresses from the files in the current user's Temporary Internet Files folder,
Yahoo Messenger, Microsoft Outlook address book, as well as the files whose extensions are .asf,
.avi, .doc, .jpg, .mdb, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .pps, .ram, .rar, or .xls.



The worm may spoof the "From" field. The email message has a randomly selected subject line, which may also be the attachment name. The attachment has a .bhx, .exe, .hqx, .mim, .uu , .uue, or .xxe extension. It is written in the Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) programming language and is compressed with UPX.

Also known as:
W32/Holar-G (Sophos)
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