-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue July 15 2003 17:06, madsaxon wrote: > Unless you want to consider those stupid "forward this to > everyone you know" hoaxes as a form of virus. Since so many > people blindly follow the instructions, they are in effect > acting as the operating system, executing the payload of the > message. > > I like to refer to these as "smart virii." They use human vectors > to propagate, bypassing all anti-virus measures (other than, perhaps, > Bayesian spam filters).
these kind of "intellectual virii" are also known as "mems" (->memetic(s)). but keep in mind, that a "mem" is not only this kind of virus but describes any kind of idea. refer to google for more information :) for our german readers, there are some good articles on www.heise.de/tp. (there you have to refer to "memetik") - -- This is a .signature-virus. If you see this, copy it into your .signature! If you don't know what a .signature is, you've most probably been infected by another virus of name Microsoft. In this case, please remove yourself from my fov or infect yourself with linux ;) || GPG public key available -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/FDhoWCFHEwXrEHMRApMuAJ9m7z00xn20QUW0onJN1NeFFdDspACdGp8J LkrhYQF384SnH+WoBupPotM= =Z00t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
