Forum Archive Index - September 2003

["Dave Missen" <d.tackle@xtra.co.nz>]

Hi Allan and other Sharechatters

You are not alone - thankfully xtra's antivirus system is doing a good job
of blocking most of these before they hit.

I have received several of these over the past week along with a number of
advice notices from my ISP that they have detected a virus in an incoming
message.

I agree, these virus writers really do need to get a life.  Was amazed to
read that the kid caught in the states for writing a variant of the Blaster
worm was supported by his parents and believes the US Government is "out to
get him" or "make an example of him" or some such thing.  This is just
terrorism on another level that looks as if it will continue to get much
worse as software becomes more and more complex.  Anti-virus software
writers cannot keep up and heaps of damage is being done before they get
solutions/patches out to the general populace - the cost is absolutely
phenomenal in terms of IT personnel time and business disruption.

Certainly adds significantly to the costs of conducting business which in
turn reduces both funds for reinvestment in business and returns to
shareholders.

Anyone with a surefire solution to the problem will probably be able to
exceed the wealth of Bill Gates  if they can get their solution to market
quickly enough.  Some good opportunities for a real whiz kid rather than
wasting their time (and everyone else's)  with writing the damn things.

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Potts" <ajp7079@excite.com>
To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:02 PM
Subject: [sharechat] WARNING!!!!!!


>
> Hi all,
>
> I received a bounce back message today THAT I DIDN'T SEND.  It was
addressed to Liz@bossleyarchitects.co.nz.  The heading was  Re: Your
application and contained a pif. attachement which, I'm told is a WORM.
Specifically a W32.Sobig.F@mm worm.  The trouble is that some other worm
sent it, not me.  I've not sent any such messages, and since it was a NZ
message, I have to assume that someone is useing the Sharechat site names to
trick people into opening this fradulent mail.  Please do not open any such
messages from me or anyone else.  Some people really should get a life.
>
> Allan
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