Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 22:38:15 +0000 (TST) From: Ravis Tasakorn <gc727305@netserv.chula.ac.th> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virus checking Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91.960302223135.6572F-100000@pioneer> In-Reply-To: <3299.825539746@time.cdrom.com>
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Dear All
I've just count myself to subscriber of freebsd-hackers-digest and wonna
join you , Is this the way to treat new member ? Ah! :-(
I really wonna know it !!! and if what I've asked is silly,I'm apologize
to you.
*!@#$dvfdkfdfbfbbllk >:-(
Ravis.
On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> [ Oh dear, it's as I thought ]
>
> > Jon Loelinger writes:
> >
> >>So, like Ravis Tasakorn was saying to me just the other day:
> >> Dear Users
> >>
> >> I'd like to know if any of you have URL of cool sites where I can
> >> download virus killer shareware programs.
> >>
> >> It may be some of these virtual creatures living in my harddisk,Ah! :(
> >>
> >
> > Yes, and they sound somewhat intelligent too. Odd...
>
> Only just.. I did think to subject Ravis to a turing test in a short
> round of private email, and he failed it, so I'd say this is simply
> another manifestation of the MAILBOMBER virus they've been talking
> about over on AOL.
>
> Yep, MAILBOMBER is one of the more insidious little virii to come out
> of Eastern Europe. It apparently forges mail from a randomly
> constructed alias and posts it to a randomly selected mailing list
> (ours, unfortunately, appearing to be one of compiled-in choices).
> The topic of the message is, of course, viruses and whether you have
> any information on them. It then scans the replies it gets to see if
> the keyword MAILBOMBER appears anywhere, thus cleverly measuring its
> own levels of notoriety and taking various protective measures when
> certain thresholds are exceeded.
>
> Fortunately, numerous bugs in its natural language output algorithm
> make it rather easy to catch. It seems that the author wasn't a
> native speaker of english, and he coded certain linguistic
> misunderstandings on his part directly into the virus.
>
> In short, it may be a highly sophisticated piece of work, but it still
> speaks terrible english.
>
> Hopefully my mention of it 3 times in this message should trigger its
> response mechanism into fleeing this particular mailing list.
>
> Jordan
>
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