Melissa and Love Letter made use of the trust that exists between friends or colleagues. Imagine receiving an (66) from a friend who asks you to open it. This is what happens with Melissa and several other similar email (67) . Upon running, such worms usually proceed to send themselves out to email addresses from the victim’ s address book ,previous emails, web pages (68) .
As administrators seek to block dangerous email attachments through the recognition of well- known (69) , virus writers use other extensions to circumvent such protection. Executable (.exe) files are renamed to . bat and . cnd plus a whole list of other extensions and will still run and successfully infect target users. Frequently, hackers try to penetrate networks by sending an attachment that looks like a flash movie, which, while displaying some cute animation, simultaneously runs commands in the background to steal your passwords and give the (70) access to your network.
A．virtual
B．virus
C．worms
D．bacteria
