Being a dedicated Mac user, I can afford to take a somewhat detached attitude to the latest alarms and confusions in the Windows world. (Though I can't be too complacent - Macs aren't immune to viruses). What I find especially amusing these days is the increasingly clever ploys virus writers are using to lure their victims into opening those nasty files.
The proof is in my "Deleted Items" folder in my email program, where everything that is considered junk is automatically consigned. There you can find two emails, one from "Public Assistance" and the other from "w3qwresojssl@advisor_microsoft" both claiming to be sending me the latest critical patch that will fix all my Windows vulnerabilities - and even three new vulnerabilities. Very decent of them, and it's amazing that these magic patches can fit in less than 500k.
Then there are the three emails purporting to come from mail administrators claiming that the emails I supposedly sent didn't go through. And look what's attached to these emails, a couple of innocent looking files called hpacqfe.exe and enizxmb.exe that if I were foolish enough to open (and if I had a Windows machine) would no doubt be doing some nasty things to my computer right now.
It would be amusing, except that a lot of damage is being wreaked, even on those of us not using Windows; thanks to the networks being clogged, email servers scrutinizing every message, and the like.
Posted by wetcoast at September 18, 2003 07:58 PM