On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:38:22 EDT, Anthony Del Rosso <[log in to unmask]> said:
> Someone please take the appropriate action against this person. This is the PDF of the trace route to the
> address that posted the said message.
>
> Anthony Del Rosso
> Association for Computing Machinery
> ACM On-Line Services
> UNIX Network Administrator
> http://www.acm.org/~del2
1) Why did you attach a 8K PDF when plain text would do just fine?
2) Note that as with *most* worms, the copy you got was quite likely
*unintentional*, and indicates no further maliciousness or stupidity than
the fact they use Outlook and/or other Microsoft products.
2a) If you read it more closely, you'd see that it references 4 webpages
at www.skyinet.net. You might wish to complain to them instead, except that
the pages have been dead for months, because:
3) The guy in the Philippines that originally wrote this has *already*
been arrested and released. Remember the Melissa worm? It's a variant.
--
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech