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 | | From: | MerAtore | | Subject: | Virus | | Date: | 20 Jan 2005 21:23:54 GMT |
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 | I am here to address a very serious issue. I believe that someone here
attempted to send me the
Mydoom virus. I don't know if it was intentional, but luckily, my mail
program got rid of it. If it
was intentional, please don't try it with anyone else.
Sincerely,
Mer
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| | From: | Rory Parle | | Subject: | Re: Virus | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:07:08 +0000 |
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| MerAtore wrote:
> I am here to address a very serious issue. I believe that someone here
> attempted to send me the
> Mydoom virus. I don't know if it was intentional, but luckily, my mail
> program got rid of it. If it
> was intentional, please don't try it with anyone else.
Most viruses, including MyDoom, will try to send themselves to every
email address they can find on the infected system. It probably found
your address in a locally cached copy of one of your rec.juggling posts
and sent itself. No-one was trying to infect you. Also note that the
'from' address is forged, so the one person you can be sure didn't send
it to you is the person it claims to be from.
--
Rory Parle
http://www.netsoc.dit.ie/~jugsoc/
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| | From: | Schwolop | | Subject: | Re: Virus | | Date: | 21 Jan 2005 05:45:28 GMT |
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| Rory Parle wrote:
> MerAtore wrote:
> > I am here to address a very serious issue. I believe that someone here
> > attempted to send me the
> > Mydoom virus. I don't know if it was intentional, but luckily, my mail
> > program got rid of it. If it
> > was intentional, please don't try it with anyone else.
>
> Most viruses, including MyDoom, will try to send themselves to every
> email address they can find on the infected system. It probably found
> your address in a locally cached copy of one of your rec.juggling posts
> and sent itself. No-one was trying to infect you. Also note that the
> 'from' address is forged, so the one person you can be sure didn't send
> it to you is the person it claims to be from.
>
> --
> Rory Parle
> http://www.netsoc.dit.ie/~jugsoc/
Not only that, being sent the virus is often an indication that you
already have it. The reason being
that a lot of people have themselves in their own address books and
whatnot, or post to their own
threads, thus giving the virus their own address to send to.
Having said that, to the best of my knowledge, the MyDoom virus doesn't
actually DO anything bad,
short of spreading to other computers and causing havok and soaring
bandwidth bills... I don't
understand these modern virus writers, they just don't seem to have the
sense of fun of the old days!
My favourite three viruses were all back on DOS boxes.
Number one featured a white super-pixel (remember them? Ascii code 0x04 I
think...) which bounced
around the screen and killed a block of RAM with each move, giving you
roughly 40 seconds or so to
save what you were doing before the computer crashed! Great fun, it was
almost a challenge to save
you document as the amount of RAM you had in which to do so depleted!
Number two I never had, but apparently it would "eat" a pixel from your
display every time the
computer was reset, permanently setting that pixel to black. Thus after a
few months the display
would be noticably shorter!
Number three never actually got off the ground, but the collective banned
members of my high school
computer club had great fun trying to get it to work. The idea was to get
the virus to edit BIOS settings
and overclock the front side bus and voltage core. Thus causing the
computer to heat up until the
processor was physically damaged. We figured we would end up with the
first virus to actually caused
irreversible physical ramifications. Fortunately, our programming skills
weren't quite as acute as our
ideas, and we never got past the BIOS lock. Probably this was a good thing
in hindsight, if I'd learnt
assembly language in high school I'd probably be even more of a nerd than
I am now...
Tom
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| | From: | Charlie | | Subject: | Re: Virus | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:43:25 GMT |
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| On 21 Jan 2005 05:45:28 GMT, tom@jugglethisBUTNOTTHISBIT.net.nospam
(Schwolop) wrote:
>Rory Parle wrote:
>> MerAtore wrote:
>> > I am here to address a very serious issue. I believe that someone here
>> > attempted to send me the Mydoom virus. I don't know if it was intentional, but luckily, my mail
>> > program got rid of it. If it was intentional, please don't try it with anyone else.
Probably best to find out a little more about how modern viruses work
before posting messages like this. Most people have absolutely no idea
their machine has been hijacked.
>. We figured we would end upwith the irst virus to actually caused
>irreversible physical ramifications.
Apparently back in the days of the Commodore Pet, there was a way of
stopping the raster scan and thus heating up a particular area of the
screen. Some screens weren't made thick enough and would thus implode.
May be a myth, but if not, that's what *I* call a virus.
C
>Tom
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| | From: | Arachnoid | | Subject: | Re: Virus | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:08:55 +0000 |
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| there was a particular poke that would cause that to happen. One line
of code could actually burn out your pc.
them were the days
russ
Charlie wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2005 05:45:28 GMT, tom@jugglethisBUTNOTTHISBIT.net.nospam
> (Schwolop) wrote:
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>>Rory Parle wrote:
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>>>MerAtore wrote:
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>>>>I am here to address a very serious issue. I believe that someone here
>>>>attempted to send me the Mydoom virus. I don't know if it was intentional, but luckily, my mail
>>>>program got rid of it. If it was intentional, please don't try it with anyone else.
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> Probably best to find out a little more about how modern viruses work
> before posting messages like this. Most people have absolutely no idea
> their machine has been hijacked.
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>>. We figured we would end upwith the irst virus to actually caused
>>irreversible physical ramifications.
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> Apparently back in the days of the Commodore Pet, there was a way of
> stopping the raster scan and thus heating up a particular area of the
> screen. Some screens weren't made thick enough and would thus implode.
> May be a myth, but if not, that's what *I* call a virus.
>
> C
>
>
>>Tom
>>
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| | From: | geezer | | Subject: | Re: Virus | | Date: | 21 Jan 2005 05:44:32 -0800 |
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| If your virus had come from here it would probably have been the
"cascade" virus.
Description here:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/cascade.shtml
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