On Thursday 02 June 2005 14:33, Gene Heskett typed: > Greetings; > > I rx'd several copies of what I think was a viri yesterday, > purportedly coming from verizon.net, my isp. > > A very short text message mentioning my account, with a 60 > kilobyte .zip file attached. The thing that bothers me is that it > was addressed to that gibberish string they use as the primry account > identifier, and not to the alias you all see this message coming > from. Which to me means the viri generator has access to data that > is not supposed to be public. Their machinery has been compromised,
The verizon id, as I remember, was machine generated. This means that a worm can generate it. It'll hit a lot of invalid accounts, but with free zombienets, does it matter?
