"Old Nick" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:03:26 GMT, Screener1 >
> vaguely proposed a theory
> ......and in reply I say!:
> remove ns from my header address to reply via email
>
> Bee in bonnet.
>
> Don't be too derisive about the infected.
>
> I "trialled" one of these attachments. I ran a latest update (that
> day's) virus checker over it (CA's AV)...clean. Then I checked it with
> updated malware checkers...clean. I had a firewall running. I started
> the trojan. It broke straight through the firewall, even wehn
> completely blocked, and although the firewall could "see" the trojan
> programme, it simply generated no traffic. I had all sorts of reasons
> and excuses from the makers of the firewall.............ecepe that
> another firewall _did_ catch the trojan every time.

Amazing. Thanks for the warning, I don't have that kind of expertise to
remedy a situation like that.

>
> In the end I used an online virus ID service, and it showed up the
> malware in the exe file.
>
> And this was after these things had been floating around for a week.
>
> It appears there are two hand jobs here. The one by the perpetrators
> of this shit, and the other by the purveyors of semi-capable
> "protection".
> >Nice to see the illiterate still have a place to hang out.
> >The INFECTED, too.....
>
> ************************************************** **
> I went on a guided tour not long ago.The guide got
> us lost. He was a non-compass mentor.........sorry
> ........no I'm not.