Re: Re[2]: Spam? (or scam)

["Ryan Moore" <baradium@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Welty" <rwelty@domain.elided>
To: <ihc@domain.elided>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 07:59
Subject: Re[2]: Spam? (or scam)


> not to rain on anyone's conspiracy parade or anything...
>

ROFLOL!

> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:26:41 -0500 "Jeff Randolph @ Bigscout79"
<Bigscout79@domain.elided> wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: Spam? (or scam)
> > > ---Why do you think it will stop functioning on 9-10. Did you dissect
> > the
> > > program or was that some type of humor that I failed to see?
>
> > I'm guessing this was directed at me.  No humour intended.  I read this
> > in
> > more than a few places. In fact, the article you linked to mentioned
> > 9/10 as
> > well as the end date. If you read right before the last section in it it
> > says exactly what I was psuedo-phrasing.
>
> > I agree it is an odd date to "supposedly" be ending on.
>
> well, it is, but this is version F of a worm that has had 5 previous
> incarnations, each with a hardwired termination date.
>
> evidence is that what is going on is actually a spammer ring trying to get
> control over a lot of PCs on broadband connections so they can spam away
> freely.
>
> richard

So what does the worm do after it's termination date?  Does it leave a
backdoor access or something to the computer so spam messages or something?

IE, what does it do to give them the control.

-Ryan


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