On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 17:41, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > This is the latest take on the same old trojan that' sbeen circulating for > close to two months now. > > The biggest effect I can see this as having is a conceptual Denial of Service > against the public's trust in patching and remote updates. "Now I just don't > know what's safe."
My favorite 'take' was the following - it shows how swen adapts to what it /thinks/ the current date is... > Microsoft Partner > > this is the latest version of security update, the "September 2009, > Cumulative Patch" update which resolves all known security > vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS This one killed me - ROFLMAO. I've gotten about 250 swens, every single one sent to an email address that appears solely on the Netfilter mailing list. That doesn't bode well for Linux firewalling, perhaps... ;^) j MCP. Defenestrator. Cynic. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
