On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> Drsolly wrote:
>
> > > AV researchers have been getting such "abuse" from virus writers almost
> > > since there were "AV researchers"...
> >
> > Right - some weasel put my phone number into a virus, that was 16 years
> > ago.
>
> The most well-known one targetting me contains the author message:
>
> Nick "The Love Monkey" Virus Package by ALT-F4 and ALT-F11 for the
> Alternative Virus Mafia
>
> and sends Email mesages from victim machines to what was my address as
> thaVirus Bulletin editor that say:
>
> Dear Nicky... my name is <<Application.UserName>> and I want to make
> hot monkey love with you. You anti-virus stud!
>
> These Emails were sent by Outlook via automation (a forerunner to
> Melissa) and as the default in Outlook is save a copy of all messages,
> I also got quite a few "I have no idea who/how that message was
> sent..." Emails.
Back when I was actively "hunting" botnets (hunting was something
different back then), there were about about 3 nicknames of mine set to be
/ignored on IRC by a bot. They were in the top-5. My first two were #1 and
#2 (I think).
Then, the following bots just copied the list and added to it. I am not
sure if the whole ignoring bit was given as positive feedback.
Gadi.
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