Going Viral (of a different kind)
January 27th, 2004Having a very annoying day at work - Novarg, a new virus, is making the rounds, and the bloody thing is emailing itself from some random idiot’s computer pretending to be the CARET email server (I’ve checked the IP and it isn’t us), with my work address as the reply-to (probably lifted from my profile page on the department website), so I’m getting a ton of crap from all the servers where the virus scanners are picking it up and throwing it back. Very distracting, and something that only adds to the chaos on email servers. Thankfully it seems to have stopped, as I was about to phone the company whose IP address the emails are coming from and yell at them a lot.
But anyway, it’s a slightly devious twist on using viruses to attack other people’s computers - and it shows how you can still be annoyingly inconvenienced by viruses and poor computer security even if you yourself take all the precautions and have anti-virus software and a firewall.