[clug] [AUSCERT ALERT - Email worm W32.Beagle.A/Win32.Bagle.A]

Darren Freeman daz111 at rsphysse.anu.edu.au
Tue Jan 20 01:02:22 GMT 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:25, Nemo -earth native- wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:45:11PM +1100, Damien Elmes did utter:
> > Nemo -earth native- <nemo at nut.house.cx> writes:
> > 
> > And instead annoy random people on the internet! I can appreciate the
> > desire to please the customers over strangers, but this has to be
> > balanced against the impact on the global community.
> 
> Fair call. Given that many from addresses don't exist at all, I still
> feel the overall impact is best handled this way.

the present worm uses people you could actually know as the From:
address. So in effect you'd be flooding all your friends with responses
to the worm emails you didn't get, in addition to the worm emails they
did get due to being in the same infected computer. How annoying!

> .../Nemo

Have fun,
Darren



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