On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:57:16AM +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> The virus disables antivirus programs, and deletes all current and  
> future traces of it self from the victims mailbox (it actually connects  
> to the pop3 server to do this).
Only on windows of course.

> The only list I am currently active on is this. While hard to believe  
> the most logical conclusion is that some gentoo-dev subscribers has  
> been infected.
You neglect the spread mechanism here. Given that the worm forges it's
source address to a random value, the ONLY requirement to recieve an
infected email from somebody is that they have have at some point
recieved an email from you (either directly or via some mailing list) in
the past, and they still have your email on their system.

> Most of you probably has spamfilters that would hide this mail from  
> you, but shurley if it comes from gentoo-dev more people then I would  
> get these mails.
Plenty of us get viral and other spam on a daily basis (for several
months now), and even bounce messages for other virii that forge our
addresses (even our @gentoo.org ones). Set up some filtering for
yourself I use qmail-scanner + spamassassin + procmail to handle all of
my stuff.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
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