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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Tue Mar 2 20:10:28 PST 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 23:08, Mark Sergeant wrote:
> These are all generated on the fly, a similiar one is targeting redhat's
> mailing lists. Pretty easy to have a virus pick a random (from a list)
> username at hostname then also pick a random subset of text for the body
> (from a list), attach the file and send it off. It would be pretty
> trivial to write something like this in any language.

Agreed.  And for reference:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.j@mm.html

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