OT: Virus Wars

[Atrocities]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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...

[JayBdey]

You can type your e-mail like this.

Say mine was jaybdey@host.com

type

mocdottsohatyedbyaj

Then tell the person to remove "dot" and "at" and replace them with the real symbols and to mirror the other parts. Humans can do this easily, but it is hard for machines.

Or, when signing up for an Online mail account. Make your account (your real account name) have something like NOSPAM or REMOVE in it. Then when the spammer’s spyder sees it, it gets removed. But your real e-mail address really does have that in it. Again, explain this to whoever you are trying to communicate your add. to.

Also, you could make your e-mail into a picture. Open up any paint program and use the text tool to save your e-mail address, make it small and in black and white, save as a jpeg to keep the file size down as much as possible. Then refer someone to the picture. Machines have a hard time taking out words from pictures.

I get about 1 e-mail every 2 days on my real account, and it's never spam.