On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:17 am, Andreas Saurwein wrote: > On a somewhat abstract line of thinking, in regards to the latest > virus outbreaks, one idea came up which might be even useful: > > I think that we all agree that the current outbreak of Netsky, Bagle > and others is mainly because users still try to open everything they > receive, no matter how weird it is. > > Now, doing something really flashy like creating an virus like > application as follows: > * it is sent as zipped attachment > * when opened, it brings a huge, clear message, that the user would > now have been infected with a virus. A short, understandable message > explaining why and how to avoid it would be appropriate. > * it asks the user for permission to forward itself to the users > contacts, to help spreading the education. > > Would that still classify as virus? Or would that pass as something > else? Would a measure like this be of any success? What other measure > could reach the critical user groups? > > Probably this has been discussed on some lists already, but didnt > find any references.
There is an ancient (well, in Internet time) command line tool that is useful in this situation . . . To see the man page: man lart If you don't have access to a *nix machine, see http://www.geocities.com/urifrid/man-lart.html Enjoy! /g -- George W. Capehart Key fingerprint: 3145 104D 9579 26DA DBC7 CDD0 9AE1 8C9C DD70 34EA "Does getiud(2) halt the spawning of child processes?" -- Unknown from a very old fortune cookie file
