These past few weeks, I've received approximately 6 e-mail worms. That's like 6 more than I ever recall receiving all my life!

Oddly-enough (or should I say not oddly enough), they were all sent to my school POP3, which I have forwarding to my yahoo account. I don't believe I'm the sole target of them; it seems more like the perpetrator is just mass-blanketing these to a bunch of accounts at once. An interesting thing is, the first few were caught by our school's system prior to being forward. However, the last 2-3 all made it past our school's virus-prevention measures, and it wasn't until Yahoo's own filters that the virii were nabbed. Today's "WORM_NETZKY" was detected by Yahoo, however, yesterday, I actually received one that made through everything. Luckily, I was smart enough to know NOT to open a "PIF" file ;) which is what most of these seem to be travelling in.

What does kind of suck is the pathetic Social Engineering that went into the last few. They were stuff like "Subj: Your bill" and "Body: See attached file for more information" and most recently "Subj: Your software" "Body: Here is your software". Boring! I mean, one of the most fun things about such occurrences is reading and getting a laugh out of the social engineering, or admiring its cleverness. But this time I got shafted.

It'll be interesting to see how our school deals with these new threats. I'd estimate atleast 2,000 students and faculty members may have been stung. The earlier e-mails were a bit more clever, being sent from stuff like the "administration" and the "IT department". It'll be interesting to see how the school handles this situation. :)

Yeah, it's really rather insane, I've noticed a huge amount of obvious worm/virus e-mail sent to my account within the past week or so.

I've only gotten one, so far, ever. I feel so not special :(

Huh? How have you avoided them so well? I've gotten the notorious "Re: Your details" many, many times.

Its a daily occurence for my Inbox

Yoni, I have no idea, but in all the years I've been online, I've almost never received any e-mail worms or virii. I guess it's odd; it's just that not that many people ever really had my e-mail. That could be the reason? ;)

BTW, iago, if you want, just drop your e-mail, and if I get any more e-mail worms, I'll forward 'em to ya. ;)

Probally because all my friends are idiots and get infected and then have me on there mailing list..

hmmm , maybe i need to eliminate my friends.

Ever since I switched my MSN email I haven't been getting spam on my main email account, its weird, and then my MSN email started getting spam.

Well, I let the domain die out and the address doesn't even exist anymore, so no more spam for me.

I've recieved alot of spam in the last month, some from the same person, but used a different spoofed address each time. Like some for shaw.ca Rogers.ca and some schools. The good thing is, I think MSN blocks out "potenitally dangerous files" from even being able to be downloaded off the email.

Not always the case , i have a trash can full of malicous shit in my Hotmail account

OH, don't get me wrong, they get through. But when you open the email, msn blocks the file from even being downloaded, in some cases.

I've never gotten a virus in my email. I block any attachments.

my Comcast email got 1 and its the first email ive recived in like a year cause i never use my comcast email and the funny thing was it was from ITT tech they were had the mydoom virus and it was sent me to but i never open stupid attached folders

I've had 1 virus and no spam, and I have 4 email accounts (5, counting my temporary work one), some of which I occasionally do reveal online. It's odd :)

I'm immune to nearly every virus or worm that is active today. Especially the ones that require an x86 processor.

Joke virii are much better than malicious virii. I want to write a virus that, before it infects software, it backs it up (for easy virus removal), then infects it. Then, whenever that software is launched, it makes a fart sound and says "oops, that was loud". That would be so hilarious. In my eyes, anyways. And the best part would be the removal of the virus. It'd be easy because the software would have been backed up before infection.

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I'm immune to nearly every virus or worm that is active today. Especially the ones that require an x86 processor.

Joke virii are much better than malicious virii. I want to write a virus that, before it infects software, it backs it up (for easy virus removal), then infects it. Then, whenever that software is launched, it makes a fart sound and says "oops, that was loud". That would be so hilarious. In my eyes, anyways. And the best part would be the removal of the virus. It'd be easy because the software would have been backed up before infection.
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I've had an idea for sometime that an OS that could yell BACK @ you if you were to curse at it for doing something that you didn't want it to, would be AWESOME!

I don't know that I've gotten TOO MANY worms from email. But 1 is truely enough.

Gigabyte, the Belgian girl (19) who wrote the first-ever C# virus, was arrested by Belgian authorities.

The Sharp virus (aka W32/Sharp-A and W32/Sharpei@mm) is a proof of concept virus, written in 2002 by Gigabyte aka MetaPhase. She always claimed she wrote the virus to "break the stereotype that virus-writers are always male".

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sharpa.html


All it does is send the attachment to everyone in your outlook box and say, "You're infected with Win32.HLLP.Sharp, written in C#, by Gigabyte/Metaphase"

I found this information on another forum I just thought it went with this. Even a joke costs people money and would be considered a crime.

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Written in C# eh? So I guess people without the .NET framework are pretty safe from that one.

It was just to prove she could do it. She wrote it and then displayed the source on her website. She wasn't the one who released it.

[quote author=crashtestdummy link=board=2;threadid=5689;start=15#msg48879 date=1078978562]She wrote it and then displayed the source on her website. She wasn't the one who released it.[/quote]So it's illegal to simply *write* a virus, and not release it? I'd never move to belgium. And woe be unto us if the U.S. is the same way.

That's simply outrageous.

[quote author=tA-Kane link=board=2;threadid=5689;start=15#msg49002 date=1079059749]
[quote author=crashtestdummy link=board=2;threadid=5689;start=15#msg48879 date=1078978562]She wrote it and then displayed the source on her website. She wasn't the one who released it.[/quote]So it's illegal to simply *write* a virus, and not release it? I'd never move to belgium. And woe be unto us if the U.S. is the same way.

That's simply outrageous.
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I would imagine it's more for the "making it public" part.

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[quote author=tA-Kane link=board=2;threadid=5689;start=15#msg49002 date=1079059749]
[quote author=crashtestdummy link=board=2;threadid=5689;start=15#msg48879 date=1078978562]She wrote it and then displayed the source on her website. She wasn't the one who released it.[/quote]So it's illegal to simply *write* a virus, and not release it? I'd never move to belgium. And woe be unto us if the U.S. is the same way.

That's simply outrageous.
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I would imagine it's more for the "making it public" part.
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Isn't it just a clump of code, and if it was the first one written in C# it might open up new ideas to people and teach them something valuable? Isn't it the programmer's choice whether to make it open source or not? Can the creator(s) of linux be arrested for writing open source?

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[quote author=iago link=board=2;threadid=5689;start=15#msg49016 date=1079063415]
[quote author=tA-Kane link=board=2;threadid=5689;start=15#msg49002 date=1079059749]
[quote author=crashtestdummy link=board=2;threadid=5689;start=15#msg48879 date=1078978562]She wrote it and then displayed the source on her website. She wasn't the one who released it.[/quote]So it's illegal to simply *write* a virus, and not release it? I'd never move to belgium. And woe be unto us if the U.S. is the same way.

That's simply outrageous.
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I would imagine it's more for the "making it public" part.
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Isn't it just a clump of code, and if it was the first one written in C# it might open up new ideas to people and teach them something valuable? Isn't it the programmer's choice whether to make it open source or not? Can the creator(s) of linux be arrested for writing open source?
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An open-source virus is a little different from Linux. Now if windows was open source, that might be more comparable ;)