RE: A bioterror attack in World of Warcraft.

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 ROFL :-)

  Yikes!  I never thought about that.  Yikes again!  Given the rate that
viruses infect the average user, the world economy would screach to a halt
as there would be a mass exodus out of office buildings, homes, etc with
people with backpack's full of pamphlets to hand out to those few that are
lucky enough to not be infected.

  The question now would be, if you touch or accept the pamphlet, are you
now infected and have to start handing out your own?

   Yet another reason not to take those pamphlets from the guys on Vegas
Strip ;-)


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I 
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 
email:  Blanchard_Michael () EMC COM 

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Webster [mailto:craig () xeriom net] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:30 AM
To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] A bioterror attack in World of Warcraft.

Hi,
>     Interesting side line, when my in-game character in EQ2 contracted the
> plague for the first time, In-Game, I was hospitalized in real life for
> pneumonia, 4 days in the hospital, 2 weeks at home on the couch/bed.  Good
> thing my laptop can play EQ2, otherwise I would have gone out of my skull
> with nothing to do than watch day-time TV! :-)

Coincidence or a preview of something more sinister?
Perhaps from now on when a user catches a computer virus they'll start 
handing out pamphlets on the street? A sort of manual spam zombie?

Craig
-- 
Craig Webster | web: http://xeriom.net/
Xeriom.NET    | tel: +44 (0)131 516 8595

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