OT: Virus Wars
 

In the Last twenty four hours I have received over 100 email virus between my three email accounts including my AST accounts, and my Earthlink account.

I thought Earthlink filtered these out.

Also spam is way up on my AST accounts. startrekmod and Atrocities are getting flooded.

WHO SOLD MY ACCOUNT INFO!!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I mean http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

Re: OT: Virus Wars
 

Posting email address on web sites and public forums can get them captured by web spiders, which go around collecting email addresses for spam lists...

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Yeah, recently I've been getting a few suspicious emails with mystery attachments, too. I immediately delete those.

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Say my email address is goeblog@worldcom.com

That would get spammed - alternative is goeblog at worldcom dot com - this negates web crawlign spiders

Doesnt stop spammers getting it by manual means but reduces the potential - if you use such web forums get a hotmail or yahoo address and use as an alternative account to youre main personal account - you can use that and just have it set to contacts from certain forums and no others. Or just use private message - its about protection.

ISPs dont really filter emails - cause mostly they also are the source.

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I think I read that there was a virus war going on between some virus makers.

That would be a war between Nortan and some other anti virus company. After all they are the ones making these virus, how else would they stay in business?

Think about it, you have a rogue operation making viruses so your parent cooperation can sell anti virus software and subscriptions to updates.

A sick little plan that I am sure Bill Gates wished he would have thought up.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Actually... it would be just as easy to program a spider to pick up on that as it would with the actual @ and .

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How do these programs work? I mean I sometimes get email from my self in my hotmail account.

Sent by pcpatrocities@akfalsdkjfasdpofjwoef[owasif.com

I FIND THAT MOST IRRATATING AND WOULD PAY REAL MONEY TO SEE THE MASTER MIND BEHIND THIS TAKEN OUT, LINED UP AGAINST THE WALL AND SHOT.

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I got the idea from somewhere that it was/is an India vs Pakistan virus skirmish.

Building up an army of zombie machines to use against each other, or something.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">AT, you may be on to something here. I'm sure we could get upwards of a million people to cough up a buck each...

Could we get a good hitman for a million bucks or what?! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Actually the authors of mydoom, bagle, and netsky are in a little fight.. which started, iirc, when netsky started removing mydoom, (ironic eh?) or was it bagle..

I can't find the original article I read on this. It was rather amusing actually.

But anyway, many worms these days spoof the from header, so they can really appear to come from anyone...