26 January 2004 - Monday

Aww, how sweet. I love getting email.

A funny thing happened as I did my Management homework tonight.

Anna: hey

Anna: careful on your [email] account

Wilson: Yes?

Anna: i just got an attempted virus hit

Wilson: Oh, dear.

Wilson: This one I just got looks promising...

Anna: "Test"?

Wilson: No subject, actually.

Anna: hbradley?

Wilson: No.

Wilson: But I don't know the person, it's a funky foreign address, and it has an attachment.

I wonder. Why would I be getting blank email messages with zip files from universities overseas? Perhaps they wanted to wish me a belated Merry Christmas. Or an early Happy Birthday. Or an extremely premature Happy Housewarming. Or an extended Joyous End to the Cold War. Who knows? They might have been writing to tell me that SETI has located an amusement park on Alpha Centauri.

*Sigh.* But I have to assume that none of these high motives is correct. Such a suspicious world we live in now.

| Posted by Wilson at 23:13 Central | TrackBack
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I've gotten four such emails in the last week, more than I got in all of last year.
I just read on Drudge on that there are a couple of new viruses/worms that are spreading quickly, but dangit if they didn't share how you get them (I assume you have to open an attachment, but I got a virus two years ago just by having the email open).

The thoughts of Jared on 27 January 2004 - 0:04 Central
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There are times that rooming with a computer science major comes in handy.

In fact, there are times that rooming on a campus swarming with hundreds of computer science majors comes in handy.

The thoughts of Wilson on 27 January 2004 - 0:22 Central
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There is a virus blitzing campus that the mail gateway virus definitions didn't get informed on until today. You shouldn't be getting that virus any more, but take precaution on the emails you've already gotten.

The thoughts of Vengeful Cynic on 27 January 2004 - 9:26 Central
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There is a major virus outbreak world wide. They even did an article about it on MSN.com

The thoughts of Sunny on 27 January 2004 - 11:34 Central
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Its goal is apparently to hit sco.com with a DOS on February 1. Not directly harmful to your computer; it just wants to use it as a proxy and suck up your bandwidth.

The thoughts of dunny on 27 January 2004 - 13:42 Central
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