Re: Fwd: Internet Security Update

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

and yet the information had been diseminated, and if I recall, M$ itself
sent out an announcment weeks ago on this.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 9:51 AM +1300 2003/04/09, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
>
> >  What did you search for???
>
>       Various strings that appeared in the message, including "April
> 2003, Cumulative Patch", "Microsoft Product Support Services",
> "goregwiz.asp", etc....
>
> >  Note the obvious (to native English speakers) grammatical error
> >  common to folk who learnt English as a second language who often
> >  struggle with articles?
>
>       This is irrelevant.  It was pretty obvious that this was not a
> real Microsoft security announcement.  No amount of your whipping a
> dead horse will convince me that this might possibly have been
> something that I was thinking of.
>
>       My point was that this appeared to be the results of a virus or
> Trojan Horse that I had not previously heard of, that I had done
> reasonable searches using general-purpose search engines as well as
> the virus/Trojan Horse/hoax-specific engines provided by the
> anti-virus vendors, and was wondering if anyone else had any other
> information.
>
> >  Googling for the phrase "this is the latest version of security
> >  update" turned up about 780 hits, the first ten of which were all
> >  antivirus developer virus descriptions or various security company or
> >  security service teams' warnings about the (then) new Gibe.B virus.
>
>       That is not one of the phrases that I happened to Google for.  I
> searched on what I considered to be the obvious phrases, and did not
> get any hits.
>
> >  Finally, isn't it illegal in Belgium to spread viruses?  I hope any
> >  members of your local constabulary on this list take a lenient view
> >  of your including what you clearly thought was a suspicious
> >  attachment (and is, in fact, a virus) in your post to many thousands
> >  of people...
>
>       Ahh, okay.  So being an asshole is a European thing, and not just
> restricted to the Belgians.
>
> --
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles () skynet be>
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>      -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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