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Article #72Re: Important Newsgroup Virus Information Ignore - Hoax to collect web page hits
From: Phil Thompson
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:23
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:23
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:51:54 +0100, Les Desser <leslie@[127.0.0.1]> wrote: >Please could you explain what is going on here. someone posted a virus alert that was no such thing it just led to a page where they were benefitting from increased hits. Phil
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fad9d,9345ad0d1596747 X-Google-Attributes: gidfad9d,public X-Google-Thread: 1160fd,9345ad0d1596747 X-Google-Attributes: gid1160fd,public X-Google-Thread: 102a94,9345ad0d1596747 X-Google-Attributes: gid102a94,public X-Google-Thread: 105bf2,9345ad0d1596747 X-Google-Attributes: gid105bf2,public X-Google-Thread: 100788,9345ad0d1596747 X-Google-Attributes: gid100788,public X-Google-Thread: 1065b6,9345ad0d1596747 X-Google-Attributes: gid1065b6,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,9345ad0d1596747 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public X-Google-Thread: 101804,9345ad0d1596747 X-Google-Attributes: gid101804,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-05 07:24:40 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Phil Thompson <cynical_observer@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: demon.security,demon.security.keys,demon.service,demon.service.homepages,demon.service.isdn,demon.tech.amiga,demon.tech.mac,demon.tech.modems,demon.tech.pc,demon.tech.unix Subject: Re: Important Newsgroup Virus Information Ignore - Hoax to collect web page hits Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:23:51 +0100 Organization: Griffin Internet - http://www.griffin.net.uk Message-ID: <i27hlvg0i59niuiueuhj2fav6i92cupej1@4ax.com> References: <Ew15b.116719$yg.33707593@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> <t0a9lv0q2m5tb1n7upl17cli5h6th6nr3v@4ax.com> <ZEFobjPqbIW$EAnO@dessergroup.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: auth2.dns.griffin.net.uk!unknown@217.79.126.227.adsl.griffin.net.uk X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 9