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Re: AOL blocking team.net?

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Subject: Re: AOL blocking team.net?
From: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 06:48:37 -0400
I've been receiving these messages too, and trying to find where they
are coming from.  I've got a vested interest, for obvious reasons.

Since a few folks have determined it's me through lack of evidence, I
thought I'd point out some fascinating and even a frightening aspect of
this virus.

First, it's a shop-talk dedicated virus.  None of the other groups I'm
in are receiving it.  Not even the other team.net groups.  It was
written in a code that targets the shop-talk group only.  

Second, it's able to elude all the common, and a few of the uncommon,
virus detection softwares.  Not a one of them has been able to locate it
on my machine.  It must be of the newest, and most powerful code.

Third, and this is scary, it's able to turn on the power supply to my
computer, boot up the computer, send the messages, turn the computer
back off, and throw the breaker to the off position again!  That's a
terrifyingly powerful virus!!! 

Of course, it might actually be a virus on someone else's machine,
someone that is only a member of the shop-talk group, or shop-talk and
other groups I'm not a member of.  Could even be on the team.net server
itself.  Some of the messages coming through it have contained a virus
or two that my software has picked up.

To those of you witch burners who are trying to get me booted out of
the group, do a little checking before lighting up your torches.
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