Mr. Mod - Check This Guy

[corkyg]

I realize we don't have access to members real names, but here is a real name that deliberately tried to pass me the Sircam32 worm this past weekend. evbrenk@wanadoo.nl

As I read it, that is a Dutch name with a Holland ISP. Since I have never had any contact with that area, I have to assume it is someone on this forum who perhaps didn't like something I said . . . or at best, a silly jerk kid getting his jollies.

Anyway, I will leave it to you to check out. No . . . the virus passing attempt did not work.

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This email address is not registered on AnandTech. As others have posted, these viruses are self-replicating, and they are often forwarded without the knowledge of the sender. The best advice is to use good anti-virus software and update it, frequently.

AnandTech Moderator

 

[guyver01]

The sircam32 virus propigates itself thru a self-contained mailserver and emails itself at random to people. Many people infected with it dont even know they have it on their machine

To assume this person sent you the virus intentionally is ludicrist and shows you do not know anything about the virus itself. I work for a major ISP and we have many customers who are infected with the virus, who barely know how to use email. How do we find out these people are infected? People complain that they're sending out the virus. When we show them its there and how to clean it... they are so thankful, because they do not even know what the virus was doing.

 

[hoihtah]

i agree with guyver
and i'd like to add...
if people at anandtech wanted to sabotage someone else's computer,
that computer would not last a day... really.

it's more likely that it was just passed along unintentionally.

 

[corkyg]

>>>To assume this person sent you the virus intentionally is ludicrist and shows you do not know anything about the virus itself. <<<

My, my . . . how pompous can we get!

This was not an assumption . . . I know very well how this worm (not a virus!) is propagated and channeled through e-mail. I also know whose address books I am in. I was simply trying to fault isolate by eliminating this forum as a possible source, and the moderator did that very nicely (and he did so professionally!)

If you want to compare resum&eacute;s, I have been dealing with AV work since McAfee was freeware in 1984, and I wrote the first AV manual for the company I was working for at the time.

I would normally not reply to a message like this, but your overbearing arrogance was somewhat irritating.

Peace! Enjoy your ISP work.