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August 20, 2003, 03:28
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Is Old School Virus Spreading Dead?
It's not that long since the Love Bug et al, and virii are becoming more and more advanced worms/trojans/virii are popping up left right and centre. However, I was reading this article on news.com and thought it may interest you.
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The SoBig.F virus spreads by harvesting e-mails from Web pages and from the address book of an infected computer. It sends a copy of itself to the addresses in an e-mail message with a subject lines such as "Your Details" "Re: Approved," and "Thank you!" The virus also spreads by copying itself to shared network hard drives that are accessible to the infected computer.
Stratton said he doesn't think his company nor his clients were infected with the virus, but the amount of e-mail generated by SoBig.F caused enough of a headache.
"Once I figured it out, I was fine. But I found our customers were getting killed with the number of e-mails created," he said.
The SoBig variant isn't all that different from previous versions of the worm. The family of viruses is thought to have been created so that spammers can use victims' computers to send bulk e-mails anonymously. Compromised systems connect to an Internet server specified by the virus and download a Trojan horse, Kuo said.
While the mass-mailing virus hasn't changed much, people still open the attachment and infect their computers, he said.
"The education is slow," Kuo said. "We would have figured that this mechanism should have died out a year ago, but people still do click on e-mail attachments."
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So the question is: Has education in virii protection worked, and is the old school method of spreading virii by attachments dead?
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August 20, 2003, 05:16
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Not all people understand even the most basic things about computers. People who have been forced to use a computer just to receive email at work, for instance, would more than likely still open attachments even if it had "Click here to infect your computer with a virus" in the message title.
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August 20, 2003, 05:27
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...Sigh...
VIRII (nor viri) IS NOT A WAY TO PLURAL "VIRUS". THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE PLURAL FOR VIRUS IS VIRUSES.
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August 20, 2003, 05:56
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Agree with Skanky.
Maybe in 20 years when the kids being born today have grown up with computers and understand perfectly how to use them this will disappear. For the moment there are far too many stupid people around.
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August 20, 2003, 08:13
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Spreading by email old school  ?
Old school is spreading by floppies!
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August 20, 2003, 08:39
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Shouldn't it be "old skool" anyway? Spelling things wrong is, like, cool.
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August 20, 2003, 23:13
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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
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VIRII (nor viri) IS NOT A WAY TO PLURAL "VIRUS". THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE PLURAL FOR VIRUS IS VIRUSES.
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Actually, VIRI (second Latin declension) and VIRUS (fourth Latin declension) are also considered acceptable.
VIRII is dead wrong.
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August 20, 2003, 23:24
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Originally posted by St Leo
Actually, VIRI (second Latin declension) and VIRUS (fourth Latin declension) are also considered acceptable.
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On the first: While that may be true, it was very rarely used. And thats in Latin. In English (at least according to the Oxford English Dictionary) viruses is the only plural for virus.
Anyway, if anyone is interested in the plurality of virus, you can read:
Dictionary.com Mini-Article!
Perl.com Article
Google Article
Homepages Website (still, please don't lynch me. For any reason.) Article
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August 21, 2003, 02:16
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Case in point (for the original topic):
A lawyer in London recently was fired for sending explicit emails to a large group of other lawyers. Rather than hitting "reply" to just send to his friend, he hit "reply to all".
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August 21, 2003, 12:29
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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
A lawyer in London recently was fired for sending explicit emails to a large group of other lawyers. Rather than hitting "reply" to just send to his friend, he hit "reply to all".
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ROTFL
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August 21, 2003, 15:05
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Oh for the old days and the virus' one had to worry over.
Gonorrhea? Fine, I'll take two.
Syphilis? Load me up.
Herpes? Bah! I'd scoff at herpes.
Little grimmer with ALL manner of infections these days.
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