Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:10:21 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net> Cc: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> Subject: Re: Notify about your e-mail account utilization. Message-ID: <1078287021.41593.0.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.com> In-Reply-To: <1078286896.1303.5.camel@localhost> References: <atljejygcfwdxgaveht@freebsd.org> <1078286896.1303.5.camel@localhost>
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On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 23:08, Mark Sergeant wrote: > These are all generated on the fly, a similiar one is targeting redhat's > mailing lists. Pretty easy to have a virus pick a random (from a list) > username@hostname then also pick a random subset of text for the body > (from a list), attach the file and send it off. It would be pretty > trivial to write something like this in any language. Agreed. And for reference: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.j@mm.html -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH
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