Virus got through my system: sorry!

[Aleksander Mierzwa]

At 22:07 01-02-12 -0600, Tom Vandervoort wrote:

>Today, the Anna Kournikova virus got through my computer system.  I had not
>updated my Norton Anti-Virus for two days, altho I don't know if that would
>have helped.  A report on public radio late this afternoon says the virus
>will often come from a trusted source (a lawyer I work with regularly in my
>case) prompting people to open the attachment which will cause the virus to
>send itself to everyone in the email address book.  The radio story also
>said the virus will not harm computers.  I'm notifying all in my address
>book.  Sorry folks.

I'm bothered by the fact how easy it is nowadays to write a virus that will
spread around the world and cause so much trouble. In the good old times,
creating a virus required extensive knowledge of operating systems and good
assembler programming skills. Are there any programmers on the list? Have
you actually looked at the code of the virus? It's so darn simple (despite
the author's pathetic attemtps to make it difficult to read) anyone with a
basic knowledge of COM architecture could write this.

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Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
87 5KT