full-disclosure - Re: Viral hoax

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Message-ID: <20030519124048.2c319a2c.volker.tanger@discon.de>
From: volker.tanger at discon.de (Volker Tanger)
Subject: Re: Viral hoax

Greetings!

On 19 May 2003 11:16:14 +0300 Alexandru Balan <Alexandru.Balan@...S.RO>
wrote:

> "hello, since we couldn't write our own virus, please delete all the
> files on your hard drive and send this message to everyone you know"

Obviously they were not able to write their own virus, else the
instuction would have been: "send [...] message [...] and delete [...]" 
The other (original) way round the message would have been deleted
first, so infecting other PCs would not be possible, thus the virus was
killing itself in the very first iteration...

Bye

Volker Tanger

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