Re: bad virus

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Xray wrote:

Dustin Cook<bughunter.dustin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Several years ago when I worked for an ISP, I'd start by turning your
email off, and then I'd give you 24 hours. If your machine was still
spewing trojans and mass mailing worms; your connection was
terminated until you cleaned up your mess or took your business to a
less responsible ISP.

You seem to have contradicted yourself.

Not at all.

You said you'd start by turning off email, and if its still spewing
mass mailing worms 24 hrs later, the connection is terminated.

If 'twas me, I'd not even wait the 24 hours, 'cause ya know it's not
going to stop until something drastic is done.

How is it going to be spewing mass mailing worms if the ability to
send email is terminated ? How is anyone else in danger of being
infected, since this machine can't email ?

You're showing your lack of knowledge on how these things work. Mass
mailers have their own SMTP engine and do not use your email client. And
it doesn't even need email (that's what the spammers do though). Your
trojan could also be pinging sequential IP addresses, looking for PCs
without firewalls.

Well, If I had such great knowledge of how these things work, I guess I wouldn't be posting here, now would I ?
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