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jkw wrote: | | On 2004/01/06, at 20:32, Dennis Freise wrote: | |> On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:14:47 -0500 |> Nicholas Hockey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |>> does anybody else on this mailing list get slammed by the "Microsoft |>> Update" virus going around, i'm trying to figure out why i get nailed by |>> it all the time, and i apologize for the apparent list spam. ( i |>> believe the virus is called swen or gibe ) |> |> |> I noticed today that about 10 minutes after posting to gentoo-user-de |> my smtp |> was flooded by attempts to send various types of virii (all ended up |> on clamav). |> Really annoying was that my email-adress was also used to send virii |> to other |> people (got many messages from other smtp-servers which filtered the |> virus).. |> There are some really crappy people subscribed to that list I suppose. |> :-( | | | if i was a virus writer or spammer, i'd subscribe to as many mailing | lists as possible and gather the addresses of posters. then i'd realize | i could just write a program to grep web pages for "-subscribe@" and | automatically handle list subscription and address harvesting. to combat | that you'd need a more complex subscription mechanism--"what is the | capital of assyria?" or the like.
Or what are the letters in this JPEG image...Like Hotmail, and many other services now ask users signing up for an annomous service.
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- -- Stephen Clowater
Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really
know what we are doing.
-- E. DijkstraThe (revised) 3 case c++ function to determine the meaning of life :
#include <stdio.h>
FILE *meaingOfLife() { FILE *Meaning_of_your_life = popen((is_reality(\
))?(is_arts_student())? "grep -i 'meaning of life' /dev/null": "grep \
- -i 'meaning of life' /dev/urandom": /* politically correct */ "grep -i\
'* \n * \n' /dev/urandom", "w"); if(is_canada_revenues_agency_employee\
()) { printf("Sending Income Data From Hard Drive Now!\n"); System("dd\
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