OT: Virus Wars

Atrocities · #1 March 11th, 2004, 02:38 AM

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!!!!

I mean

Fyron · #2 March 11th, 2004, 02:47 AM

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...

Kamog · #3 March 11th, 2004, 04:02 AM

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

Paul1980au · #4 March 11th, 2004, 04:06 AM

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.

Atrocities · #5 March 11th, 2004, 04:41 AM

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.

Fyron · #6 March 11th, 2004, 05:01 AM

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

Actually... it would be just as easy to program a spider to pick up on that as it would with the actual @ and .

Atrocities · #7 March 11th, 2004, 05:03 AM

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.

Suicide Junkie · #8 March 11th, 2004, 05:45 AM

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.

Grandpa Kim · #9 March 11th, 2004, 06:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Atrocities:
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.

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?!

Sivran · #10 March 11th, 2004, 06:46 AM

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...