Re: lifestages on IRC

[rune () TRANS4MEDIA COM (Rune Kristian Viken)]

On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, you wrote:

>       Is it possible to spoof the ip address given by the irc client to
> the IRC server ? Actually, i'm new to IRC and don't know anything about
> this.  This "offer" of file happened twice , so i've started using irc on
> linux only. Also What can i do to track the guy who was doing me this
> "favor" ?

The guy was infected.  It happened when you joined a channel.  If you're new to
IRC - which you obviously are - you'll probably be quite confused by all the
exe's, shs's, ini's, com's, bat's, and so forth that is floating around.  The
people that send them are INFECTED.

Also, life-stages is a *Very* nasty worm.  It has *specifically* targetted us
that run certain anti-virus/worm channels on IRC - it makes the client
autoignore us if he joins certain channels.  Also, the virus autoignored people
that write to the client about "infected" , "life-stages" , "remove", "virus" -
and lots of other trigger-words.

What you should do, is to write the guy that sent you the file a message -
worded VERY carefully so that you trigger the ignorefunction - and explain to
him that he is infected.

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