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echo: alt-comp-anti-virus
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from: ANT
date: 2015-09-08 11:42:00
subject: Re: Email malware attachm

"Virus Man" wrote:

> This still doesn't explain how the attachment is supposed to execute on
> a target system

By the user double-clicking the unzipped js file.

> - ie - what mail client the user must be using, what the
> user sees in terms of system messages as they launch or access the
> attachment,

Exactly. It depends.

> how is the attachment handed off to IE

It's not.

> (or the windoze scripting host) for handling, etc.

By the OS (file association for ".js" in the registry).

> How can the scripting host be invoked directly, with a .js file of
> interest?

By the user double-clicking it.


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