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Well at least he didn't have the clients automatically open and interpret said listserv emails into executable tasks. Then it would almost look like Windows Update.
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At least he was there to fix the damage ASAP. That would've been terrible if someone hadn't been able to reach them and had just ran it thinking it was legit.
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I'll add this to the list of reasons I hate email.
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Maybe one of the previous emails mentioned to "trust nobody, not even me" so people wouldn't just blindly run any piece of advice from random mailing lists/websites.
On that case it's great that everyone followed that advice!
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I thought this article is about this thread.
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Fix the damage that he basically caused by not setting up the listserv right in the first place that is.
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This is (one of the reasons) why I always configure mailing lists to be text only.
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So why wasn't Majordomo preserving the full collection of
Received:headers? That's the usual way of figuring out which system actually sent an email. Or was Fernando such a tool that he didn't know about such basic things?Admin
My thoughts exactly. Discovering the origin of the virus should not be rocket surgery.
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And then you can tell the owner of the machine that they're part of a botnet.
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:trollface: He probably got in trouble with the boss, though. "Just think of all the service calls if our customers had installed this virus!"
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I like how I got 2 discopopups about this post, then clicked the notification, and it's still "unread"... [image]
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Ahhh, yes, reminds me of the good old days. Open-relay listservs, for example. And remember when listservs didn't recognize "Away" messages? You'd send out an email, someone's mailreader would send an "away" message, the listserv would forward that to the group, ... 10 zillion messages in everyone's inbox.
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Netbeans users still does (or at least did until quite recently; I only remember seeing maybe one in the last couple of months). Bonus: They're almost always in German.
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Hooray botwars!
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My brain first tried to parse this as discopoops, then as discopups before arriving at the correct interpretation (although it could be argued that the first parsing us just as accurate).
Filed under: [image]
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Well, yeah, but it could've been
tenmuch worse.