and you can say that with concrete fact? /me facepalms i've seen hundreds of these worms, and that worm in particular. there's no way to prove that one specific person at the cafe is trying to send the worm around, or that they targetted the list at all.
you say you know lots about network security, yet you don't seem to realize how most email worms work? it takes one person to be infected, whether on purpose or not to start sending out emails without even knowing it. we get email spam, virus etc just from having an email address publically visible due to web spiders and other tools that crawl around webpages. the only email accounts that i get spam on are the ones that can be parsed directly via the web (ie: accounts on forums that are visible, or news posts, the hl* archives, etc), and ones where i happen to have spoken to someone who saved my email in their address book, but didn't secure their system.
there's no way you can flat out say that one person is specifically targetting the valve list, it would be, frankly, bloody retarded to even say that with no proof whatsoever. and, you have none to lay that concrete conclusion down on.
as for that worm, i forget what it's called now, but i was getting that for a while from various people, hell, i've gotten spoofed spam and virii emails from your email address in the past couple days, and that's mostly because of you posting here!
-omega -- Blackened Interactive - http://www.blackened-interactive.com FLF:Defiance - http://www.frontline2.com Wavelength - http://www.thewavelength.net
StealthMode wrote:
@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).
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