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IRC Networks Unite in Fight Against Fizzer Worm

Posted by michael on from the why-cliff-got-klined dept.

Dave writes "Over the past few days, IRC Networks across the internet have felt the brunt of the Fizzer worm. In an unusual display of geek solidarity, representatives from dozens of IRC Networks, including EFNet, IRCNet and DALnet, have gathered to create a Fizzer Task Force. Interesting, and mostly productive results have occurred so far from such a meeting of the IRC minds."

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  1. Re:mIRC by alien88 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As it stands right now, the worm was poorly coded or released into public early. The IRC client is pretty much useless - it doesnt have any commands and you can't do anything with it.

  2. Re:Missing from the discussion so far: by SailorFrag · · Score: 4, Interesting
    While we know that Fizzer only operates on the Windows platform and uses the Windows address book to mail itself, it also tries to use Kazaa to spread itself further.

    Actually, it doesn't use the Windows address book. I know this because I (under firewalled, very controlled conditions) ran it to see how it worked. One thing I noticed is that it was sending e-mails out to addresses I did not know. That computer does not have an address book, nor any outlook express smtp/pop3 server settings (I never configured it).

    Though the track record of OE and its address book is pretty bad, it isn't always to blame.