karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (02/09/90)
"...bleakness...desolation...plastic forks..." --Zippy T. Pinhead I was told about one in misc.jobs.misc early last evening. I forged a cancellation against it. I got in touch with the user and told him to come to my office this morning. It wasn't until this morning that I found the 2nd one, from the same person, the same posting, posted _separately_ to news.misc. (He mailed them to the newsgroup names.) The 2nd one is also in mid-cancellation now. It will NOT happen again. (And to think that just yesterday morning, I posted a note in which I complained about having seen a copy of this very file left in one of my FTP areas...sigh...) What a way to start a morning, --Karl Kleinpaste Personification of the NNTP Daemon Ohio State Computer Science
tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) (02/10/90)
In the referenced article, karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >The 2nd one is also in mid-cancellation now. Thank you. >It will NOT happen again. Thank you! >(And to think that just yesterday morning, I posted a note in which I >complained about having seen a copy of this very file left in one of >my FTP areas...sigh...) Small world. Someone told me that they had noticed MAKEMONEY.ARC in our FTP archive. Sure enough, there it was. Sort of a pseudo-worm, using stoopid humans as the transmission medium. I wonder just how many FTP sites that allow uploads have this thing now? Tim -- Tim Ramsey Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences Internet: tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506 UUCP: ...!{rutgers,texbell}!ksuvax1!tar (913) 539-4977 (voice) 2-7114 (FAX)
mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) (02/10/90)
In article <1990Feb9.191314.2139@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes: >Small world. Someone told me that they had noticed MAKEMONEY.ARC in our >FTP archive. Sure enough, there it was. Sort of a pseudo-worm, using >stoopid humans as the transmission medium. I wonder just how many FTP sites >that allow uploads have this thing now? Don't look now, but it's infected someone at Rochester, too. I just found this in comp.mail.misc: +From: dtb7684@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.T. Bracke) +Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc +Subject: ~"Mlmake MONEY fast!!!! +Message-ID: <2141@ultb.isc.rit.edu> +Date: 8 Feb 90 07:49:49 GMT +Reply-To: dtb7684@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.T. Bracke ) +Distribution: na +Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Information Systems +Lines: 380 + [Same stupid, obnoxious chain letter deleted] -- Mike Van Pelt Here lies a Technophobe, Headland Technology/Video 7 No whimper, no blast. ...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp His life's goal accomplished, Zero risk at last.