Soarpoint sending viruses

[chris]

Soarpoint seems to have made a point to email me a virus

"rllwh.zip" was infected with: "W32.Mydoom.F@mm" virus.

So who is the soarpoint character?
And why is he motivated to such antisocial behavior?

Chris

[Stewart Kissel]

The nature of viruses is that one who does not scan
regularly will not know if his machine is infected.
Soarpoint will hopefully read your post and get some
up-to-date antivirus software.




At 05:06 01 March 2004, Chris wrote:
>Soarpoint seems to have made a point to email me a
>virus
>
>'rllwh.zip' was infected with: 'W32.Mydoom.F@mm' virus.
>
>So who is the soarpoint character?
>And why is he motivated to such antisocial behavior?
>
>Chris
>

[Eric Greenwell]

Stewart Kissel wrote:

> The nature of viruses is that one who does not scan
> regularly will not know if his machine is infected.
> Soarpoint will hopefully read your post and get some
> up-to-date antivirus software.

The nature of viruses these days is it never comes from the machine it
says it does (ah, the good old days, when viruses were honest): the
"from" addresses are always spoofed. More likely, it comes from a
computer with Soarpoint's address in it, or the address was simply
harvested from the newsgroup.

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change "privacy1" to "charter" to email me directly

Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

[Stewart Kissel]

Everything you ever wanted to know about mydoom.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/mydoom.asp







At 05:18 01 March 2004, Eric Greenwell wrote:
>Stewart Kissel wrote:
>
>> The nature of viruses is that one who does not scan
>> regularly will not know if his machine is infected.
>> Soarpoint will hopefully read your post and get some
>> up-to-date antivirus software.
>
>The nature of viruses these days is it never comes
>from the machine it
>says it does (ah, the good old days, when viruses were
>honest): the
>'from' addresses are always spoofed. More likely, it
>comes from a
>computer with Soarpoint's address in it, or the address
>was simply
>harvested from the newsgroup.
>
>--
>-----
>change 'privacy1' to 'charter' to email me directly
>
>Eric Greenwell
>Washington State
>USA
>
>

[Henryk Birecki]

Just because Soarpoint appears to be sending these (reply to, or
from). Does not mean he/she does. You need to dig into the e-mail
headers further. You'll probably discover that soarpoint is bogus.

Personally I constantly get delivery failure, or user unknown, or
virus.... system failure messages referring to e-mail I never sent.
Annoying as hell, but nature of spam/virus culture (but then my e-mail
address was available on internet without change for the past 10 years
- what should I expect).

Henryk Birecki

(chris) wrote:

>Soarpoint seems to have made a point to email me a virus
>
>"rllwh.zip" was infected with: "W32.Mydoom.F@mm" virus.
>
>So who is the soarpoint character?
>And why is he motivated to such antisocial behavior?
>
>Chris