Re: Revenge of the Nerds

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Drsolly wrote:

> > AV researchers have been getting such "abuse" from virus writers almost 
> > since there were "AV researchers"...
>  
> Right - some weasel put my phone number into a virus, that was 16 years 
> ago.

The most well-known one targetting me contains the author message:

   Nick "The Love Monkey" Virus Package by ALT-F4 and ALT-F11 for the
   Alternative Virus Mafia

and sends Email mesages from victim machines to what was my address as 
thaVirus Bulletin editor that say:

   Dear Nicky... my name is <<Application.UserName>> and I want to make
   hot monkey love with you. You anti-virus stud!

These Emails were sent by Outlook via automation (a forerunner to 
Melissa) and as the default in Outlook is save a copy of all messages, 
I also got quite a few "I have no idea who/how that message was 
sent..." Emails.


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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