Choo Moe wrote:
>
> "Brett A. Pasternack" <brettalan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message > The fact
that
> it had a .scr tag on the end indicates it's probably a
> > virus-related thing, and not **** at all.>>
>
> I never open any kind of link that shows up on any newsgroup (or e-mail)
> unless it is from someone I know. But these .scr posts are very
frequent,
> and under many different subjects. I have to wonder, if there is no
profit
> in it, what kind of sub-human excrement sits around all day sending
hundreds
> of virus e-mails to thousands of newsgroups?? What kind of person does
this,
> day after day?
It's not a person. It's a self-perpetuating virus. Someone *wrote* it,
of course, but once they do, they send it out, and it does the rest.
It's programmed to look around the hard drive of whatever computer it
infects and send itself out by whatever means it can find (such as
e-mail or newsgroups).
Which means, incidentally, that if you receive an e-mail from someone
you know and trust, it *still* could have a virus attached. The virus
may have infected that person's computer, and sent itself from there--or
it might have infected someone *else's* computer, found that e-mail
address there, and sent itself from there picking that e-mail address to
use as the return address. Nasty little things.
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