An MSN Messenger virus. I love it.
[http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/warhol.html]
Actually, it’s a really scary article, reads like Bruce Sterling. . .
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An MSN Messenger virus. I love it.
[http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/warhol.html]
Actually, it’s a really scary article, reads like Bruce Sterling. . .
*shudders* Like Outbreak. Creepy.
Okay, so I now understand how the worm spreads itself, and why it’s damn near impossible to guard against, short of highly restrictive firewalls… My question is this: Short of overloading networks with worm traffic, what damage does a worm do? Can a worm contain “deadly” instructions, such as deleting system files?
This makes me seriously consider moving back to using Pine as my email client, instead of Outlook Express.
mozilla is unaffected by this and all other IE-related security issues.. and its mail reader is not too shabby
yup. no one has created a really destructive worm yet. i kind of wonder why. any of these serious outlook-related worms could’ve obliterated hard drives, etc., .. do virus writers have a conscience?
if you believe the stereotype, they’re not concerned with causing damage. they just want to pull off a ‘righteous hack’ and make their name as a l33t haxxor.cause they’re all a bunch of punk kids.i’m not entirely convinced that this is false: weren’t the people they caught for the last big worm just a bunch of college students?(why can’t I post as sean?)