Get those idiots off my internet

Okay, tell me if you see what is wrong with this scenario:

  • Alice’s computer is infected with the Novarg (Mydoom) worm.
  • Alice has some HTML on her computer that includes Bob’s and Charlie’s email addresses.
  • Novarg finds those addresses, and send itself to Bob, but uses Charlie’s address in the From: field. That is, the From: address is spoofed.
  • The oh-so-smart people at Bob’s company have installed anti-virus filters on their email system.
  • These filters detect the Novarg virus in the email sent from Alice’s computer (which appears to be from Charlie).
  • It is well known that the Novarg virus spoofs the From: address.
  • These filters send a ‘bounce’ email back to the spoofed sender telling them the email they just sent contained Novarg.
  • Charlie gets this stupid bounce message (infact, he eventually gets hundreds of them); not just because Alice has a virus, but because of the stupid email filters at Bob’s company.

Now, listen up all you oh-so-smart email administrators, and all you oh-so-smart anti-virus programmers. GET OFF MY INTERNET!

This entry was written by spud, posted on January 28, 2004 at 10:38 pm, filed under Java. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.
  • bjd

    you forgot to draw the dude’s chair.

  • http://madbean.com/blog/ Matt Quail

    The Super-Internet-Dude don’t need no stinking chair. Or, maybe I just forgot to draw it.

  • http://jroller.net/page/oburn Oliver Burn

    Hear hear! I am sick of getting 300 emails a day say that I have sent a spam! :-(

  • BMC

    Those who can do, those who can’t; administrate :-(………

    After proudly spending an entire career as the natural enemy of IT dudes and refusing to let them go near my computer……in my current job, I find they have remote software to install stuff when I am unaware (Orwell turns in his grave).

  • mildred grigg

    leave me alone