LA Times article

Uh, yeah.....I agree, I think

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
news:m0TWc.5991$rT1.2901@trndny02...
You would think and hope, but based upon experience it isn't true. Even
if it was, they
only help with the known, not the unknown. Albeit, heuristic scans
increase new infector
catch rates. On the other hand, heuristics increase the number of false
Positive
declarations. In addition, Social Engineering is the art of getting past
physical and
software security measures as shown by the expert, the original Phone
Phreaker, Michael
Mitnick.

The best defense, practice Safe Hex !

Dave



wrote in message
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| On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:31:55 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
| wrote:
|
| Yes, that's true but what's different is the "bot". Software designed
to crawl through
| UseNet News Groups and capture email addresses to sell as lists for
spammers. In
addition
| the Swen Internet worm has its own engine to post to and read from
UseNet News Groups.
By
| posting executable files posing (masquerading) as Microsoft updates
(patches) the Swen
| Internet worm utilizes Social Engineering to in effect con users into
executing supposed
| patches from Microsoft to infect the readers platform. Infected
platforms will then scan
| UseNet News Groups and search them for email addreses. Based upon
addresses captured
from
| UseNet it will then send email via its own email engine to unsuspecting
recipients. What
| both (bots and NNTP worms) don't do is scan web sites. Simply because
UseNet News Groups
| are fixed but web sites vary.
|
| So, everyone should have a firewall, virus and ad ware detectors by
| now, don't you think...
|
|
| Dave
|
|
|
|
|
| wrote in message
...
| | On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:45:34 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
| | wrote:
| |
| | You shouldn't post your own email address, unmunged, to UseNet
because you leave
yourself
| | open to spammers and worse, the Swen internet worm and others.
| |
| | It is even WORSE to post another's email address, unmunged, without
their permission.
| |
| | Please do NOT do this in the future.
| |
| | Reasonable advice but a majority of byline newspaper articles contain
| | the writer's email address as the subject article did..
| |
| |
| |
| | --
| | Always be ready to attend to the needs and wants of the wanty and
| | needy.
| |
| | Dave
| |
| |
|
|