OT: Somebody on this List Has Worms

OT: Somebody on this List Has Worms

[Warren W. Gay VE3WWG]

Every time I post with a new email address to this
group, I start getting those pesky Microsoft Update
worm messages.

If you're reading this group (comp.lang.ada), then
and your email client collects email addresses in
your address book, then please do a virus check.

One or more of you are badly infected.

Thanks, Warren.

-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
[Remove nospam from the email address:
the worms made me do it!]

Re: OT: Somebody on this List Has Worms

[Keith Thompson]

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:
> Every time I post with a new email address to this
> group, I start getting those pesky Microsoft Update
> worm messages.
> 
> If you're reading this group (comp.lang.ada), then
> and your email client collects email addresses in
> your address book, then please do a virus check.
> 
> One or more of you are badly infected.

In my experience, posting with a new address to any newsgroup causes
an influx of spam and viruses.  There's no particular reason to think
that someone reading this particular newsgroup is infected.  There's
software out there that collects e-mail addresses from Usenet and
other sources in general.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center             <*>  <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst>
Schroedinger does Shakespeare: "To be *and* not to be"
(Note new e-mail address)

Re: OT: Somebody on this List Has Worms

[Preben Randhol]

On 2003-11-24, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Every time I post with a new email address to this
> group, I start getting those pesky Microsoft Update
> worm messages.
>
> If you're reading this group (comp.lang.ada), then
> and your email client collects email addresses in
> your address book, then please do a virus check.
>
> One or more of you are badly infected.
>
> Thanks, Warren.
>

Perhaps, but I don't think so. I think it is just the worms that are
crawling the newsgroups for e-mail addresses to send itself to.

-- 
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
 language."

Re: OT: Somebody on this List Has Worms

[Warren W. Gay VE3WWG]

"Keith Thompson" <kst-u@mib.org> wrote in message news:lnn0akvnby.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org...
> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:
> > Every time I post with a new email address to this
> > group, I start getting those pesky Microsoft Update
> > worm messages.
> >
> > If you're reading this group (comp.lang.ada), then
> > and your email client collects email addresses in
> > your address book, then please do a virus check.
> >
> > One or more of you are badly infected.
>
> In my experience, posting with a new address to any newsgroup causes
> an influx of spam and viruses.  There's no particular reason to think
> that someone reading this particular newsgroup is infected.  There's
> software out there that collects e-mail addresses from Usenet and
> other sources in general.

I don't disagree that it is possible, but I sure hope things have
deteriorated to that level. A few selfish people are turning this
wonderful Internet priviledge into a sewer system.
-- 
Warren W. Gay
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg

Re: OT: Somebody on this List Has Worms

[Preben Randhol]

On 2003-11-25, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <ve3wwg_nospam@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> I don't disagree that it is possible, but I sure hope things have
> deteriorated to that level. A few selfish people are turning this
> wonderful Internet priviledge into a sewer system.

Ask your ISP if they can filter out these worms for you. I do this at
the ISP level and I haven't been bothered with any for weeks.

-- 
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
 language."

Re: OT: Somebody on this List Has Worms

[Randy Brukardt]

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg_nospam@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
news:lvJwb.1493$oe.121571@read1.cgocable.net...
> I don't disagree that it is possible, but I sure hope things have
> deteriorated to that level. A few selfish people are turning this
> wonderful Internet priviledge into a sewer system.

Nice freudian slip. The worms come in pairs, and usually no more than a
handful come from any one real sender. So I think it is the worms that are
collecting the addresses, not some infected user here.

Of course, with Congress passing the "spam legalization act", the Internet
will be dead very soon anyway. (Which is probably what they want - can't
have uncontrolled communciation out there.)

              Randy.

Re: OT: Somebody on this List Has Worms

[Jeffrey Carter]

Randy Brukardt wrote:

> Of course, with Congress passing the "spam legalization act", the Internet
> will be dead very soon anyway. (Which is probably what they want - can't
> have uncontrolled communciation out there.)

Regardless of what laws the US Congress does or doesn't pass, it won't 
affect what happens on an international network. Most of the spam that 
gets past my filters is hawking websites in China and Korea, according 
to SpamCop.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted,
people stampeded, and cattle raped."
Blazing Saddles
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