[Cialug] self-aware viruses/trojans

Barry Von Ahsen barry at vonahsen.com
Mon Apr 1 16:14:44 CDT 2013


On Apr 1, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Nicolai wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:34:17PM -0500, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
>> has anyone seen this behavior?
>> 
>> I get a real estate spam from person A to a ginormous To: list
>> person B responds to spam with a similarly spammy message to the same list
>> person C sends a new spam with very similar message to about half of the original list
> 
> Maybe person A infected the other two.  Sounds like a worm.

this could be - it's may be a variation on "don't infect this computer if it's already in my zombie army or take it over if it's in someone else's"


-barry




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