linux worm?

[David A. Bandel]

Regurgitating the prose of Tim Wunder Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> on
Tue, 24 May 2005 07:05:21 -0400:

|On Monday 23 May 2005 9:31 pm, someone claiming to be Collins Richey
|wrote: > On 24 May 2005 17:34:33 -0700, Robert Hemus
|<bobhemus at sisqtel.net> wrote: > > I received an e-mail alert that I
|possibly had sent an e-mail containing > > this worm, I-Worm/Netsky.Q. 
|I haven't turned on my M$ laptop for about > > 3 weeks or longer. 
|Could this have been I? >
|> Two possibilitiies that I can see:
|>
|> 1. Someone is spoofing you for nefarious purposes.
|>
|> 2. You received an email that did indeed contain the worm and passed
|it on. >
|<snip>
|
|3. Brain-dead anti-virus software doesn't know that I-Worm/Netsky.Q
|spoofs the  _From_ address and sends an e-mail alert to the wrong
|person.

That's because Windoze programmers in general are as clueless as Windoze
lusers.  I doubt many of them could code anything in a CLI where they
actually had to write the code.  Forget understanding how things
actually work.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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