Actually, what the page says is that it *attempts* to send every 30 minutes.
Probably this machine is not on all the time, or if on is not online, and thus the
worm could not do that much damage. As for why friend Park hasn't responded to your
post, he may very well have unsubscribed from the
, October 26, 1999 2:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ALERT C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe contains the
"Pretty. worm" virus
I understand it perhaps better than you, this page
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/prettypark.worm.html
says it sends it every
Ricardo Bosch/CHASE)
Subject: Re: ALERT C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe contains the "Pretty.
worm" virus
Also he hasn't in any way defended himself.
...surely because he is totally unaware that it sent an email here. Time to
lay off. There are too many paranoid people
I disagree. There could be no other reason for sending a virus-infected
executable to a list like this twice other than to spread the virus.
He must have read the virus warnings the first time, but sends it
still.
People,
Worms like the one this list was hit by are not the fault of the
CJ wrote:
I disagree. There could be no other reason for sending a virus-infected
executable to a list like this twice other than to spread the virus.
Do you not understand how this worm does its deed? You don't send it,
it sends itself under your name. I'm sure this list was just one