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 |   TheGiant Next Year Is Here.
join:2001-03-28 Knoxville, TN
| So what was in the application? I wonder what kind of personal info it asked for? Employee Number? SS#? Direct deposit information? You could get quite a few people ending up with Identity theft over this. I bet he wrote this at work and it will only be a matter of time before the culprit is found. Unless it Auto spammed itself I don't see how this could be considered a virus. Sounds more like a simple e-mail to me. -- Maddox has come Home! | |
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join:2000-09-29 Lockport, NY | Re: So this means they'll have less money to spend on I'm curious, when was the last time you got one? | |
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| Re: So this means they'll have less money to spend on said by dannysdailys : I'm curious, when was the last time you got one?
Just in the past few months actually. The morons ( AOL along with EarthLink ) still haven't figured out I've been using cable broadband for 3 or 4 years now. Would you like a picture as proof?
With that said. The topic of AOL spamming CDs really had nothing to do with the topic at hand. Funny how AOL is so against online spammers. But they sure use direct ( unsolicited ) direct mailings to promote there product. -- Test Your Security Team Z Member Cable Modem Diagnostics InsightBB waiting for new tiers | |
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  jhboricua ExMod 2000-01 join:2000-06-06 Minneapolis, MN clubs: | OMG that is truly priceless... This guy better be on his way to some foreign country. | |
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  dadkins Merry Whatever Premium,MVM join:2003-09-26 Hercules, CA | Hmmm I wonder what AOL did to make this employee "disgruntled"... | |
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| Re: Hmmm said by dadkins : I wonder what AOL did to make this employee "disgruntled"...
Perhaps they demanded that he learn how to spell? -- nos insuadibilis defessus, nos insuadibilis inclino, nos insuadibilis concido. | |
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join:2002-12-08 Collinsville, IL | Outsourced their job? Insulted their ability? Installed AOl on their PC? | |
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| They Hired them.. guess what words "The Donald" uses at the end of his show.. think this person will hear that trademarked phrase? Hmmmm.... makes you wonder | |
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 |  damox Premium join:2002-01-07 Olympia, WA | LMAO, that's funny! There's a comedian in every bunch! :D:D | |
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join:2003-10-01 Columbia, MO | So easy to hoax, no wonder they're #1 Hmm...lets see...I'm trying to find the appropriate response to this story. The only one I can come up with that truly fits is:
BWAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHA!...
Oh, god, I think I need new underwear...HEHEHEHEHEHEHHE.. | |
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join:2000-09-29 Lockport, NY
| Re: So easy to hoax, no wonder they're #1 So easy to hoax, no wonder they're #1
Why yes, so is Pay Pal, E-bay, Earthlink and MSN. I guess that pretty much includes everyone... -- Madness Takes Its Toll, Please Have Exact ChangeDan DailyOwner/Webmasterhttp://www.dannysdailys.com | |
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| clues.... quote: As of today we are sending this letter out to inform each and every one of you that we have agreed that you need a bigger paycheck!
See, that was the first clue this was a virus-email 
Second, where the heck was their mailserver-based email attachment virus scanning software?
I'm thinking the local IT guys/gals will quickly become the next disgruntled (ex?) employees... | |
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 |   KoolMoe Aw Man Premium join:2001-02-14 Annapolis, MD clubs: | Re: clues.... Virus scans only work if they have a definition for a given virus file. If this employee created this virus, then there likely exists no definition for it, thus scanners are rather useless. KM | |
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| Re: clues.... That's correct. This is a great example of a zero-day virus. Virii scanners are only one line of defense and should not be the only line of defense.
But in this case the only thing that would have worked to stop this virus early would have been user education. | |
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join:2002-12-08 Collinsville, IL | nasteh I can't believe this was unprovoked. Maybe they pushed the suit's Vote yourself into wage slavery- er re-elect Bush - campaign too hard | |
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 |   Marilla I Am My Own Arbiter Premium join:2002-12-06 Belpre, OH | Re: nasteh Someone needs to come along to the 21st century with the rest of us... | |
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join:2002-12-08 Collinsville, IL | hehe got my BetaMax, Quadrophonic Stero and Creep receipts at hand! | |
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| Re: Lesson 2B Learned Thats true. Where I worked the Admin password was changed 9AM in the morning while someone was being fired, and again at 4PM after they were gone.
They had a book of all the places to change the passwords and stuff. After the blaster worm came out we were changing for like 5 days straight lol.
Dont keep your systems updated, dont keep your paychecks. -- I tie a rope around my penis and jump from a tree, don't you wanna grow up to be just like me!!!! | |
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join:2004-03-13 Waterford, MI | I like the CD's You just have to take what they say on the AOL CD's more literally. They say to pass them onto a friend so I frisbee them on over into my neighbors yard across the street. He mows his lawn excessively so it's really fun to watch. | |
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join:2002-12-08 Collinsville, IL | Re: I like the CD's I like the fish sculpture in the AOL advertisement | |
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from: dadkins  kapil 
| Yet another example of lax security. Great timing...
Just doing some channel surfing on the central FL BrightHouse cable, and hit the channel guide. Except it wasn't the channel guide, it was the computer they use to generate it, with a porn spam IM sitting on the screen.
Called the customer-no-service line and explained that they had a problem with the non-digital channel guide, and that they might want to do something about it.
She told me to reboot my smartbox to fix it. I DON'T HAVE A #%$& SMARTBOX ON THIS THING! Then she wanted my account number or address so they could see if it was a problem with my equipment or neighborhood. I patiently explained to her that the problem wasn't on my end, and asked if she had a non-digital TV she could see from her desk. She said yes. Told her to put it on channel 49 (the guide). "Oh!" she said, "I'll be right back"
And then the mouse on the screen started jumping all over the place as somebody tried to fix it. Turns out that there were several more of the IM's waiting behind the front one. After a few moments of clicking to close them, they apparently rebooted the box.
The real question here is why the heck do they have a box like that sitting directly on the internet? And why is the messenger service running on it anyway? | |
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 |   technick Premium join:2000-12-16 Loganville, GA | Re: Yet another example of lax security. OMG, now this should be in a thread all by itself. I got my daily laugh at this one, even more than the aol email virus. What a total freaking idiot, I swear.
It's ashamed you didn't record it and put it up here, that would have been great. | |
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| Re: Yet another example of lax security. All I managed to get was a grainy screencap: | |
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 |   bokamba Chengdu Rocks Premium join:2002-04-05 Falls Church, VA | That's hilarious. Thanks for sharing! | |
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join:2004-03-03 Schenectady, NY edit: April 6th, @03:56PM
| April Fools came too late - Somebody need to tell that worker that today is not a April Fools Day | |
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join:2000-08-12 Spring, TX | Re: April Foolc came too late - Why is it that the people who come up with these hoax emails CAN NEVER SPELL??? | |
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  Brazbit Randomness Personified Premium join:2003-10-22 Port Orchard, WA | Really.... Link? Source? Some sort of proof? Sounds plausible but I find nothing, at this time, anywhere else about this. | |
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join:2003-10-14 Salt Lake City, UT
| Was it really a virus? The question remains: was it really a virus? Unless I missed it, I didn't see anyplace in the article that mentioned the damage caused to the network.
Or was it merely a mischievously-crafted email with the propensity to propagate a massive influx of email to the HR department? (i.e. spam)
Although it's better to be safe than sorry, IMHO the term 'virus' is used way too loosely these days. | |
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| Re: Was it really a virus? A virus doesn't have to do host-damage to be considered a virus - not in biological viruses or comp. The virus tag only indicates that it spreads by opportunistic propagation, is indiscriminate in propagation, cannot "survive" (be active) individually outside of a host, and cannot collectively expand in population without a constant reservoir of hosts. | |
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join:2003-10-14 Salt Lake City, UT
| Re: Was it really a virus? A key characteristic of a virus - both biological and computer - is the ability to self-replicate. Even if its intent isn't malicious, the self-replicating process of a computer virus consumes bandwidth on a network and system resources on a stand-alone computer. The unnecessary consumption of these resources is the best-case scenario when a virus infects a network.
See »www.google.com/search?q=define:virus for more
This case described at AOL, if true, is just someone sending a mass-email (i.e. spam). At best it could be described as a virus hoax, but an actual virus? Please. The way it is reported as a virus contributes to the virus-hysteria that prevails among society today and is, frankly, irresponsible. | |
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| Re: Was it really a virus? said by rockjock : This case described at AOL, if true, is just someone sending a mass-email (i.e. spam). At best it could be described as a virus hoax, but an actual virus? Please. The way it is reported as a virus contributes to the virus-hysteria that prevails among society today and is, frankly, irresponsible.
You obviously have way more information than the small, unsigned article that begins this thread. It contains no "case description", states that the msg was indeed spread by viral infection, and says nothing about a broadcast message.
You may be correct that the above is completely bogus in it's use of the word "virus", but there's no indication of it here. I simply responded to your original suggestion that because this jokish letter did no damage that it couldn't BE a virus. | |
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| They can call tech support in INDIA Hey maybe they will have to call tech support in INDIA or somewhere you cannot understand them..... I hope they get put on hold for days!..............what goes around comes around!......
Who would believe such a message anyway?
Not me.............. Scott
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@rr.com
| you know, the next time I get someone from INDIA..
...I think I'll tell the rep that if I wanted to talk to someone from India, I'd go to the nearest convenience store.
Maybe I'll just blow a police whistle into the phone.
Maybe I'll thank the rep for stealing a job from a hard-working American.
Or maybe I'll just utter "get lost, RAGHEAD!!!!" | |
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| Re: you know, the next time I get someone from INDIA.. You know, you should complain to the Management of the company, not the poor guy trying to eak out a living for his family. Overseas Tech Support does suck, but don't blame the person that took a job offered to him. -- What....me worry? | |
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@80.43.x.x | umm err Everyons blasting about this and quite rightly but, do we even know if this story is actually true?..... | |
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join:2002-09-16 usa clubs: | what! so you mean I dont get that raise after all?  | |
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join:2004-03-03 Schenectady, NY | Re: what! so u saying that its another april fools joke  | |
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@attbi.com | April Fools? I've seen so many April Fools jokes as news releases, I wonder if its really true. Either way, its kinda funny. | |
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join:2003-04-25 Olathe, KS
| Re: April Fools? It is most definitely not an April fools joke. And you wouldn't expect to read it in the news, as companies aren't apt to telling the world they have lax security measures in place.
Take Best Buy, last year they released a story they were changing the design of their web sites. Which just so happened to coincide with thousands of unauthorized credit card transactions that were reversed a few days later, with out notifying anyone that their website and database had apparently been hacked. Instead they billed it as a website design change to make it easier to use, blah blah blah... I believe they were only offline for a week. If it was always just a website redesign, that's some horrible planning to take your live site offline for a week while you put a new one on. Talk about millions in lost revenue.
Anyway, companies tend to not like hanging their dirty laundry out to dry for the world to see. | |
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