dneotenburg1 <dneotenburg1@hotmail.com>

[Big Booger]

dneotenburg1 <dneotenburg1@hotmail.com>

Sent me the following message:

Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 9:01 PM
Subject: W32.Elkern removal tools


F-Secure give you the very W32.Elkern removal tools
W32.Elkern is a very dangerous virus that can infect on Win98/Me/2000/XP.

For more information,please visit http://www.F-Secure.com


Who is this and what does that message mean?

[Conan]

That's Phishhead's address.

[Big Booger]

that is what I thought... wasn't for sure. Phish, did you send this to me?

[Conan]

My Yahoo web account has been e-mailing viruses by itself, yet I hardly ever use it. Yahoo is pretty messed up.

[phishhead]

nope wasnt me but yeah thats my address. just like conan said my hotmail and techzonez email acct. have been getting spammed with viruses like crazy I've been trying to block senders when I get them but seriously I get like 15-20 a day. So until this calms down I will only PM or IM members. If you recieve an email from me plse del it.

[Thor]

I've not used hotmail for a long time but I thought they had virus filters in place.

[SupaStar]

Dudes...Sobig.F spoofs email address found inside the files listed below on any infected PC.

.dbx
.eml
.hlp
.htm
.html
.mht
.wab
.txt

Spoofed address means that the sender in the "From" field is most likely not the real sender.

This should all be over in a few days :)

The worm de-activates on September 10, 2003. The last day on which the worm will spread is September 9, 2003.
More info: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html

[Big Booger]

Imagine if the worm never deactivated... :eek:

I wasn't sure whether phish sent me that or not because of the content of the message. I had recently used F-Secure Antivirus.. so I thought it strange. Most of the Sobig virus messages, only have the subject line:

RE: That movie, or something similar.. but this one had a message in it which I thought maybe phish was telling me I gave him a virus LOL.

Just checking.

[SupaStar]

Originally posted by Big Booger
Imagine if the worm never deactivated... :eek:



That would be a pain in the ass! You'd probably keep receiving spam from all those people who don't know to update their PCs!

[Stripe]

I think it will only be a matter of time before someone comes out with a virus that does not de-activate and compromises different security loop holes in Windows. Just don't give anyone any idea Big Booger :D

[cash_site]

why do they make virus/worm to deactivate anyway? I would have thought it better, or worse, to just keep them running?

Well lucky for us anyway then :D

I think the next wave will be the 9/11 worms.

[SupaStar]

Originally posted by cash_site
why do they make virus/worm to deactivate anyway? I would have thought it better, or worse, to just keep them running?


Most are made just to prove that it can be done..not to cause major grief. However they usually end up doing both...



Originally posted by cash_site
I think the next wave will be the 9/11 worms.

What did someone say about not giving people ideas..LOL :p

[Big Booger]

what would be a kickass worm is one that generates random names, random messages, random subject lines, never de-activates, disables your AV, remove the system restore function, infects every file on your PC, autoruns on download, disables firewalls, sends traffic on all ports, and DoSes the PC that it infects through the contact list of the user it infected

LOL

[SupaStar]

Originally posted by SupaStar


What did someone say about not giving people ideas..LOL :p

[Big Booger]

I wonder if anyone here really knows how to create a virus that functions that way.

:)

[cash_site]

Lets just hope that the different virii writers dont form a coalition of the willing and combine all those nasty facets of virii or worms.

They could be the M$ of black hats ?? LOL

[SupaStar]

Originally posted by Big Booger
I wonder if anyone here really knows how to create a virus that functions that way.

:)

Well...now that you mention it...





J/K;)

[Stripe]

Not me! I never really saw the point of creating virus's and sending them to people. I like to tinker with Trainers and Memory editors and the such.

[zipp51]

Originally posted by Big Booger
I wonder if anyone here really knows how to create a virus that functions that way.

:)



Worm Boy knows but he won't be eligble for parole till next year.LOL:D