silent viruses

[Joan Bryan]

Tony

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:57:23 +0100 Tony Finch <dot at DOTAT.AT> wrote:

> Joan Bryan <joan.bryan at KCL.AC.UK> wrote:
> >
> >Silent Viruses = Bugbear Braid Elkern Fizzer Ganda Holar Klez Korvar Livra Pate
> >PornDial Sobig WinEvar Yaha
>
> I'm interested that you've included Pate and PornDial which aren't mass-mailing
> worms -- and Pate in particular can be disinfected. Elkern turns up with Klez
> but isn't itself a mass-mailing worm, so listing Klez should deal with it.

Pate was spoofing the address of support at microsoft.com so we didn't
want to send out replies to this.

We were being spammed a lot with PordDialer and we did not want to
reply to this hence the reason for adding it to the silent viruses
list.

Joan