Re: Mimail-L

["David Palmer." <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au>]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 23:30:10 +0000
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:24:09PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote:
> > I have just received a copy of the new variant of the Mimail worm.
> > Would anyone like a free sample?
> > As new condition.
> > I haven't even clicked the attachment.
> > Going cheap.
> > Information on the Sophos website concerning the followup message if
> > you don't reply to the initial one.
> > Have copied and pasted the main message in all its' intellectual
> > glory below:-
> 
> Thanks for getting us to read more spam and polluting our Bayesian
> filters by mixing spammish words into a legitimate message.
> 
> I mean, seriously. Don't we all get more than enough of this stuff?
> 
Hello Colin,

Do you get enough of this?
As far as I am aware, this is the latest -L variant, or it was when I
posted it to the list.
Many on the list run windows programmes, and run them within a
commercial environment as well.
The last time I posted this sort of thing to the list, somebody had a
script written to counter within half an hour, if memory serves me
correctly.
The intention, when posting, was not to spam. It was to show the form of
a new worm variant so that anybody who it related to could prepare
themselves.
Regards,

David.