Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:42 PM 1/15/01 +0100, julianthomas.terra.es wrote: >The interesting thing about these is that they went straight into my 'in' >box. All my listserv emails go into various folders - so how do these peopel >ghet hold of email addresses? > >Julian Well as I read it only the original creator of the virus actually sent it out there. Now (as is the nature of a Net Worm) it sends itself from infected PCs. Any address that is sent a post from an infected PC is also then sent a virus email. As most likely your filtering is done based on the "From: LUG" or "Subject: [Leica]". These infected posts will not be coming from LUG or have [Leica] in the subject as any such infected post would be sent on through the LUG where it would be killed (assumption on my part as I've not got any hahaha posts from the LUG yet.) Ergo, the posts are not likely being sent to you via LUG posts but someone else who has sent email to your address directly who is infected. To note here the most damaging aspect of this virus is that it annoys people and clogs up email servers when folks are e-mailing unprotected and mass proliferation happens. It effectively doubles each infected hosts email use. Hacking in and of itself isn't a bad thing but the jerks who create stuff like this (and then set it free into the wilds of the Net) ought to be deprived of anything remotely electronic for 20 years. Carpe Luminem, Michael E. Berube - -------------- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - -Rich Cook