Spam?
Posted on 05/17/2005 2:36:07 PM PDT by mathprof
A computer virus spewed neo-Nazi-tinged spam in English and German into inboxes over the weekend. The virus, first spotted on Thursday, sends out a blast of e-mail to addresses found on infected PCs.
Most of these messages contain links to news stories with content that "smells of right-wing political rhetoric," said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of McAfee Inc.'s antivirus emergency response team. But a small percentage contain links to a Web site that tries to infect visiting machines with the virus, he said.
Among the many messages was one with the German subject line "60 Years of Freedom: Who's Celebrating?" referencing the end of World War II. Another read: "Honorable Action" and contained a link to the Web site of the NPD, Germany's right-wing nationalist political party. One in English carried the subject: "Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously," referring to the Allied attack on the German city during World War II.
Other messages warned of ethnic Mafia groups and the increase in foreigners attending German schools.
The virus, called "Sober.q" by McAfee, is the 16th variant in the Germany-oriented Sober virus family that first appeared on the Internet in October 2003. Unlike earlier Sober viruses, this version isn't packaged inside an email attachment. Rather, it's being distributed by a Web site that automatically updates computers infected with the earlier, highly successful "Sober.p" variant, which began spreading on May 2.
Other variants of the Sober virus have been designed to send spam, but Gullotto said Sober.q has been much more successful than its predecessors, suggesting more such attacks could be ahead.
We got hit hard by this the past week.
The "balance" need to be redesignated to be bounded by Despotism (Communist, Fascist, etc.) and Democracy or even no government (the black shirted anarchists are really just socialists of another stripe).
America's Left and Right is not the same as Europe's. The media loves this characterization of the US left.
er, right.
They are both despots:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=despotism
des·pot·ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dsp-tzm)
n.
Rule by or as if by a despot; absolute power or authority.
The actions of a despot; tyranny.
A government or political system in which the ruler exercises absolute power: “Kerensky has a place in history, of a brief interlude between despotisms” (William Safire).
A state so ruled.
Amazing how the MSM won't use the term "terrorist" to describe Muslim fanatics who fly airliners into skyscrapers, but have no problem throwing the term "right-wing" around with orgiastic abandon.
Sorry, but this story headline is an outright lie. I'm a system admin for a very large email domain and this is LEFT wing, anti-US propaganda that it's been spewing out - exactly the sort of thing you'd hear from ANSWER, or from a Chinese Communist.
Dolly, take a look at this thread. Could be the answer to the German Spam!!
The early Nazis demonstrated with the Communists in Germany. They only disliked the Commies because they were competition. If one socialist kills another, is the first one a right wing socialist?
This is an old propaganda trick, to treat Nazis as right wing.
I've getting these messages for several days.
YES!
Me too!
I spent the day updating my anti-virus and firewall software. I hope it's enough.
I have been getting some EMAIL in german from some witches I did not realize it was this out of hand...
Spam?
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