Subject: Re: global warning: worms and viruses
From: Rob Riss (sdrelist@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 17:24:20 GMT
I've been getting these messages too, through the Salinger.Org feedback
link. If i had to guess, I say about 20 or so have come through. They've
slowed recently but definitly are the sircam virus. Keep your eyes open
guys.
-rob
>From: "Tim O'Connor" <oconnort@nyu.edu>
>Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>Subject: Re: global warning: worms and viruses
>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:37:10 -0400
>
>On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:00:46AM +0100, Bernd Wahlbrinck wrote:
>
> > 2. I was away for 2 days, and when I got back last night there were
> > 217 emails in my account. 207 were from a LENNONO (JOHN LENNON)
> > MAILING LIST. It seems there must be a virus who is able to get
> > people on that mailing list (any mailing list??) so that they receive
> > mails they never asked for. this virus must have gotten me on that
> > list. about 50% of those mails contained lots of expletives from
> > people like me, writing to that list and
> > asking/pleading/begging/cursing to be removed.
> > does anyone know about this and/or how mailing lists including the
> > fish list could be protected from those criminals?
>
>We're reasonably well protected.
>
>First, the list rejects messages that are over 30K in size, so it
>would have rejected all the virus messages you have seen and the many
>dozens that I have seen.
>
>Second, only one has come to the list, and that was from an infected
>subscriber who has been a problem in the past. He has multiple
>addresses, which has also been a problem in the past, but was useful
>this time because his virus posting was rejected as a non-subscriber
>posting. (It would have been rejected anyway because it was too big.)
>
>Third, these are not "criminals"; the viruses (these recent ones are
>actually worms, an important distinction) are sent without the
>knowledge or consent of the owner of the mailer. The worm burrows
>into the mailbox and propogates itself by plucking addresses either
>from your address book or from your existence in the sender's web
>cache (e.g., if the sender had been reading the list's archive, which
>has your address in it), so the sender really isn't to blame, except
>that s/he may not have the most recent antivirus definitions.
>
>Lesson: have the most recent antivirus definitions!
>
>Compute in good health!
>
>--tim
>
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