Re: Revenge of the Nerds

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> 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.

Back when I was actively "hunting" botnets (hunting was something
different back then), there were about about 3 nicknames of mine set to be
/ignored on IRC by a bot. They were in the top-5. My first two were #1 and
#2 (I think).

Then, the following bots just copied the list and added to it. I am not
sure if the whole ignoring bit was given as positive feedback.

        Gadi.

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