Greetings guys!
Anybody heard of that harvesting virus?
Refer me to some URL if they exist...
The allegations below are unverified, but they come
from a quite trustable guy, a sysadmin.
He might be clueless (I have no idea) but he's
certainly not launching a troll...
Please reply to me personnally
(and let TM rant to his heart's content)
Why am I not subscribed to CPunks?
'cause I'm too busy with the property rights
and firearms rights crowd...
Ciao and Thanks!
jfa
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>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:01:17 -0700
>Subject: Harvesting!
>From: some sysadmin somewhere in the Kollektive Komradship of Kanada
>To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Here's the skinny on the situation:
Sources unknown have fired off several viruses to date.
They are self deleting harvester viruses, very sophisticated variants of the
melissa virus. They specifically are targetting email address book and
config, and pgp key listings. An anonymous friend who happens to be a
security specialist (heheheheh) caught the virus sent through the mail
server I used and was totally amazed by what he saw. The viruses are
amazingly sophisticated but very specialized and quite small. They
apparently either use windows api or outlook express to access the files,
then fire them off to an unknown source. My friend hasn't been able to track
it.
Each virus targets a specific function. One tried to nab my email config and
address book files, the other went for my pgp key listing. Fortunately, my
computer's setup doesn't allow anonymous/unknown packets to be transmitted,
so I nipped it in the bud. Previously I was sent 3 viruses, and the third
one apparently went for my PPP config files. The virus deletes itself,
successful or not. It was designed specifically for PCs.
I won't hazard a guess as to who has sent it, but it doesn't seem like your
regular virus. It appears to only send to one source, instead of emailing it
to everyone in the address book it swipes. The source is undetermined.
Not trying to make you paranoid or anything! ;-)
-G
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