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Re: Subject line observation
From: crispin () WIREX COM (Crispin Cowan)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 01:10:56 +0000
"Robert G. Ferrell" wrote:
Noticing the flurry of rejected messages I got back associated with the ILOVEYOU virus message post that I made 6 hours ago, it occurs to me that a very effective, if short-lived, DoS could be constructed by writing a similar virus and sending it out with very common words in the subject line, like "Security" or "Alert" or "Windows" or "Issues" or "Buffer" or a host of others. If, for example, people started filtering out all messages with the word "Security" in them because of a virus, that would bring several of the mailing lists I'm on almost to a halt. If the virus had a small database of those words and was self-modifying to choose one at random when it duplicated....
15 years ago, there was a rumor (now known to be true ) that the NSA was scanning the net for seditious traffic. Civil libertarians responded by creating .sig files filled with seditious key words such as "bomb", "terrorist", "communist", "frisbee" :-) and "pizza" :-) Crispin ----- Crispin Cowan, CTO, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Free Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org JOBS! http://immunix.org/jobs.html
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