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Valdis Kletnieks <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:07:46 -0400
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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.

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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