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Worm bait?



On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:33:34PM -0400, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> I've received a ton of these today.  I think that the latest worm de
> l'heur is particularly aggressive at scanning systems for email
> addresses and randomly using one as the sender.

Ah, yes, this is a more plausible explanation than the one I provided.
I use Linux exclusively, except for an occasional game here and
there, and since I'm unemployed I currently don't have much reason to
care about the plight of windows users relating to e-mail worms.  And
so, the fact that yet another has bombarded the Internet had only just
barely managed to intrude upon my conciousness.

-- 
Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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