On 2/10/01 1:13 AM, "Stephanie da Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wish I could believe you. I'm still getting 30 to 40 Snowhites
> a day, this has been going on for a couple months.
That's bad. I've seen a few waves, but mostly it's gone again.
Snow White, as fas as I can tell, ISN'T a "read the address book and forward
yourself" virus. The copies I've examined seem instead to have been
consciously sent to spam lists -- it's a script-kiddie job, not a
self-forwarder. Now -- it could well be both, and the copies I've examined
were the insertion attempts. I haven't attempted to look at the virus, just
the injection system, to see whether I was vulnerable. Especially since the
damn thing is both a .exe and a shockwave virus, depending on which variant
you get.
> At least with happy99, I could tell them. These come from I don't
> know where.
I think you're seeing script kiddies who are buying the spamlist CDs, not
people on your lists who got infected. From what I've heard, that Snow White
virus is nasty.
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