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Polymorphic Virus warning! BEWARE! READ NOW!!! DEADLY VIRUS!!!
ABSTRACT: A highly polymorphic and dangerous virus is slowly spreading
through the Internet, causing the reduction of bandwidth and waste of
hundreds of man hours.
The new virus have some variants. Some of the variants are: Good times,
Dayyenda, Penpals. This virus is known to spread by e-mail. Once you get
the virus, no matter what OS you are using, IT HAS ALREADY DONE ITS
DAMAGE!!! because it has used the bandwidth of your Internet connection.
THEORY OF OPERATION:
The virus acts by exploiting the MMI (Man Machine Interface). It convinces
the user which reads the mail that there IS a dangerous virus on the
Internet, using void threats like "will infect your boot sector", "will
destroy your hard disk", "will email your CC numbers" etc. etc.
It is hard to predict what else will the virus try to do, because of its
high polymorphicity. It is likelt to, however, to bring conclusive
"evidence" in the form of some fake official who insures the public that
the threat is real.
The virus will then attack by convincing the user to forward the message
containing the virus to as many people as the user can, therefore taking
up more and more bandwidth!!! This is the most difficult to prevent and
most dangerous effects of the virus. Fotunately, there is a way to stop it
at this phase.
The virus' source is usually unknown, but it can be related to the
organizations who will most benefit from its effects:
* Internet providers (increased usage of their service)
* Newbie hackers (causing damage)
* Extremists who fear technology (creating anarchy and fear)
The only way to reduce the effects of the virus is using the designated
key on your keyboard marked "D" (for Delete) or the appropriate button on
your graphical mail agent marked with a trash can. This will hopefully
avoid the spreading of such viruses and reduce the load on the Internet.
Just for the statistics: 1/2 of the messages in a previously-decent
mailing list might be the cause of the 3rd phase of the infection!
Be happy.
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Arik Baratz, Regularus Studentus, iNTP, 4Z9DGE
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"Your conscious mind is very intelligent, and your unconscious mind
is a hell of a lot smarter than you are."
- Erickson H. Milton
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