AAAaaaaarrghghghghgh! Frankie? Did you have to do that? Now that Stephen knows that we appreciate common sense we'll never get a decent day's work out of him. Damn! Welcome to "Stephen, The Next Generation" ! LOL!
But since we're on the subject of viruses, and since I've been way to busy to read every single last post on this subject, I'd like to ask one thing. Has anyone told the list that an infected email received on this list may not have come from the person named? These types of viruses will (if activated on a WinBlow$-handicapped system), will run to the address book, grab all the addresses in the book, and send out infected emails USING the stolen addresses? So, if I'm in Stephen or Frankie's address books, I'm safe (because they use Linux, and NOT Outlook, or Outlook Express! Right Guys??). But if I'm in someone else's address book, and that address book is the ill-concieved Windows Address Book, infected emails will not only be sent to me, but can also be sent to others USING my address, and NOT the address of the originating user. So, "John Smith" ( not his real name ) could have me in his WAB (Windows Address Book), Sobig could infect his system, because John is narrow-minded, and still uses Windows (IMHO), and an infected email could be sent from his PC using MY address as the "From" address, when in fact it's John's ( that lazy ba$tard - I'll fix him for this, I swear!) PC that the virus and email came from! End result? I get dumped on by 300 recipients ( See my reference to John's heritage above ), who think I sent it, and I may even get crapped on by John ( who I've just taken a contract out on at this point! ), because some other idiot in his address book, got infected, and had John's address in his book, but the virus used my email address and sent it BACK to John! Needless to say, John's day's are numbered at this point, and I wouldn't want to be in his shoes when "Guido" (also not his real name) shows up with a small-calibre, silencer-equipped handgun, and "ventilates" John, after which the party starts at my place! And you wonder why people on this list use linux? It's because we need to save our money so we can pay guys like Guido to take care of all the "John's" in this world! Ok, so like I was saying,...If someone has already mentioned this kind of thing in the Virus-related posts to the list then please ingore this diatribe. But John? You better start running, buddy! Guido's coming! Did that help at all? Grin! Grin! Lanman *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 9/7/2003 at 11:32 PM Frankie wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn >>Sent: Sunday, 7 September 2003 10:30 PM >>To: Mandrake Newbie >>Subject: [newbie] Virus - let's go over this again, shall we? >> >> >>I really hate having to go over this subject again and again and again, >>but there has to be some understanding and education for those that >>really don't understand the nature of writing a virus/trojan/script. >> >>As of the past few weeks, we've all see SoBig and Blaster bouncing >>around - ok - so that's not news; however, the understanding must be >>solid in as much as the bugs MIGHT get relayed to Windows machines from >>unix/linux machines, but the unix/linux machines are in no way affected; >>the spread is mostly through email - or relaying through an email >>server; the bugs cannot be propogated in unix/linux as there is no means >>by which they can operate. >> >>It is inherently COMPLEX to write a trojan/script/virus for unix/linux >>or MacOS 10 - and no matter how wide-spread the usage of unix/linux or >>MacOS 10, the intricacies and level of skill and understanding are in >>themselves prohibitive; the people that are capable of even doing so are >>being paid large sums of money to do real work and they would barely >>have the time to dedicate to such a task - and a task it would be. >> >>Just due to the absolute nature of the unix/linux/bsd/Mac OS/X operating >>system(s) it's hard to even create something based solely on social >>engineering as programs/scripts cannot be run in the same manner as on a >>Windows based OS. >> >>So, in essence, no matter how wide spread linux gets, it's going to be a >>tad bit more than plain out and out difficult to create the same type of >>annoyances that are currently plaguing the Windows-world - and if you >>don't believe what I'm stating here in plain English, please by all >>means, read up on the subject - visit all the hack sites, dig into the >>complexities of writing nasties for linux - then you'll come to >>understand what I'm spewing here. >> >>/rant >> > >FRANKI: > >Stephen, this new thing of yours.. making sense and stuff.. is very good, >you should go with that more often :-) > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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