Re: Spam names pattern change -just another Trojan

From: Keo Ormsby (chor02@xenomexico.org)
Date: Tue 09 Aug 2005 - 15:31:13 GMT

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    Hello Everyone, Not to demerit the interesting points raised in this thread, but actually what happened was that someone with the addresses of the memetic list got infected with the Chimo.c Trojan. The individual author of the Trojan decided to use Jewish names, and one may speculate if it was in admiration, solidarity or spite, but in any case the Jewish names have no memetic interpretation.

    More info: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.chimo.c.html

    Cheers to all, Keo.

    PS: Better scan your computers.

    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Gatherer" <d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 1:32 AM Subject: Re: Spam names pattern change

    > >
    >>
    >>I was about to say that I hadn't noticed this pattern,
    >>but just checked my junk mail and noticed spam from
    >>people claiming to be "Gould" and "Feldman". Maybe
    >>you've picked up on a recent trend. Not sure if it
    >>means anything.
    >
    >
    > Maybe the spammers are even more sophisticated than we realise, and have
    > recognised that a memeticist is more likely to give a second glance at any
    > mail coming from (Steven) Gould or (Marc) Feldman [despite the fact that
    > dear old SJG is no longer with us]. If you get one from "Dawkins" that
    > would confirm it.......
    >
    >
    > ===============================================================
    > This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    > Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    > For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    > see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
    >
    >

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