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Latest WinWorm Spreads Via ICQ And Outlook
mgooderum was among the many to write in about yet another snippet of malice making the Windows desktop rounds: "The latest email virus -- 'Goner' -- is apparently running around this morning (AP news story on Iwon here - no login needed). The virus is a typical worm that spreads via attachments and user's address books. It appears as a message with an attachment that starts: 'How are you ? When I saw this screen saver I immediately thought about you...' Goner is apparently non-destructive other than the normal DoS issues with the load from it forwarding itself everywhere. What's moderately unique are two features. One is its ability to replicate via ICQ as well as the usual Outlook and Outlook Express. Two is its small size -- it has a packed form that is only 159 bytes. Symantec has details here; McAfee has details here." Update: 12/04 21:57 GMT by T : That should read 159 kilobytes. And as many posters have pointed out, "destructive" is in the eye of the beholder.
WTF does "moderately unique" mean?
Either something is unique or it's not, by crikey! Soon we'll have things described as "marginally special" or "slightly dead."
Avoiding off-topic flames like this is just ONE reason to avoid sloppy English.
"And the meaning of words; when they cease to function; when will it start worrying you?"
oops, correction: rm -rf /* will delete any file in a directory writable by the person who runs the command, with a few exceptions.
On most Linux systems, that's almost exactly the same thing as what I said, but I thought I'd correct myself before someone else does.
Torrey Hoffman (Azog)
"HTML needs a rant tag" - Alan Cox
but I fixed that with "su, deluser test, rm -rf /home/test, adduser test"
Tsk, tsk. Try this, give your keyboard a break:
deluser -r test; adduser test
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
WORST GOATSE LINK EVER. At least spell it right.
You doof! You have Outbreak _and_ you have autopreview enabled. You don't deserve Linux.
A majority of problems that occur on NT systems happen becuase they were not patched or left in default mode.
Check your settings! You _trust_ Microsoft?
Don't even _try_ linux.
You scare me.
Carl
Shit better not happen!