On 2004.01.29 00:39 John Hebert wrote: > > That's not science, that's politics. Or religion, > considering your zealotry. Have you even read the > analysis on how this virus works? > See: > http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=mydoom > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Yes, I've read about this typical Microsoft transmitted disease. If you had read my post before smarting off with questions that I answered, you might have understood what I was saying instead of judging it wrong because it does not match your own preconceived notions. I am a scientist and I want to make a statistical case. I don't have the means at my disposal because I don't' administer a mail server. It would be easy enough to do if you had a few thousand messages sitting around. The thing that's suspicious is that a virus that intends to propagate in the most efficient way does not use the computer sender's address. If you could gather up all the addresses on my computer and look at them, you would find that the only thing that they have in common is that those people have met me. My mom does not know you John and would not trust something from you unless you mentioned me in the subject. If you wanted to propagate quickly, you would use my name as the sender for all the addresses gathered on my computer.. If you wanted to embarrass me, you would use a computer you could infect to send viruses in my name to my mom and others. Microsoft hates free software and will do anything to defeat it. Microsoft has actively worked to discredit their "competitors" on the internet since the 1994 Steve Barkto case. Their premeditated breading of DRDOS, complete with PR plans to blame DRDOS, was proved in court by examination of Microsoft internal emails. They have repeatedly called free software a "cancer", "communist" "unAmerican" and all that. It is clear that Microsoft considers all free software a threat they must destroy. The SCO case is just another extension of their efforts and I don't put virus writing beneath them. Keep an open mind, John. I don't really know who wrote this month's silly virus, but I'm willing to entertain ideas and test them. Come up with a reasonable test, do it and share the results. That's how science works. If you have an idea and you can demonstrate it in a repeatable manner, you have established something. Your idea might be way off, but what you demonstrate is true. Loony ideas work sometimes. If it does not work, oh well, no big deal I've been wrong before.
