@omega... How do you know it isnt a variant? I mean come on you are supposed to be a coder, how easy is it to reverse engineer a virii and place your own code to it?
Now you are correct though in one instance. It is a worm. It was also dumped into computer #5 at the polish cyber cafe by a customer who obviously wants the worm to be spread through anonymous means. He is using this polish cyber cafes computers to send email to ANYONE it has recieved them from (including HLDS announce messages from ALFRED). However, to target the hl coders list at one time, and to engage the hlds win32 list another, and even the nix list sometime thereafter. Only to repeat the process every few months. Tells me this is more then one common worm. The spoofing is happening from a customer at the cyber cafe. I guarantee that. He is trying to distribute a worm that probably steals your registry info for god knows what purpose. However, seeing as how it's Valve specifically that is being targeted. Says that someone in Poland has it in for Valve. I could think of a few places (seeing as how right around the time the first virus popped up in Alfreds name right after a guy in poland wrote the win32 list asking if he had to pay for server software (eg: standalone hlds) because he was being charged by a company (the same one that the cyber cafe is run on) to have the software running on his own machines. But none of that really matters. What really matters is that an IT professional "SHOULD" want to secure the networks he/she/it is responsible for. And in NOT doing so and replying with ignorance, only shows how insecure the entire steam network is. I can see a virus being distributed via steam very very soon.... -=]H[=-StealthMode _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
