Re: [NTLK] New virus making rounds

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 07:41:33 PDT


somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 9/19/03 9:57 AM, the entity known
as Paul Braun transmitted the following from splendor_at_ctgonline.org:

>> Hey gang... most of us are probably smart enough not
>> to fall for it, but FYI, there is a new virus out that
>> looks like a patch from Microsoft. DO NOT INSTALL. It
>> is indeed a virus.
>>
> Yeah.... started getting bombarded with it yesterday afternoon.
> Checked my mail on this account this morning, and between 11pm
> last night and 9am today I got 149 emails, of which 126 were all
> variations on this theme, all with 150k attachments.
>
> Makes me glad I run Pegasus Mail. Also makes me glad that I have
> a webmail interface on my server so I can go in and clean all that
> crap out while I'm here on the T1 at work so I don't waste an hour
> downloading all that garbage at home on the dialup....

Personally, I think people should forward every single one of these e-mails
to Microsoft. Ah, well... Windows will never be secure until either Apple
invents a method for Gates to copy or some other company invents a way and
MS does a hostile takeover. Either way, it will be trumpeted as Microsoft
being innovative.

You know, if any other company produced a product with such massive and
costly defects, they'd either be buried under suits for gross negligence, or
the Gov't would issue a recall.

- Eric.

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Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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