Re: Latest on I Love You mutations
Posted by: jwrennie <jwrennie@...>
> inboxes yesterday. It gives details on a number of mutations of the LoveBug
> worm that I thought might be of interest to all. Personally, I am appalled
> at the lengths some will go to in an attempt to be destructive.
The reason that this worm keeps changing and turning up in different forms
is that the script is trivially easy to edit and change in the areas where
it names emails.
This script will be around for a while becasue it is so easy to edit.
There are plenty of malicious script kiddies out there that can now reek
all manner of havoc, and will simply becasuse they are selfish and
destructuve.
They haave always been there, they just haven't been handed a such an easy
to use script before.
The worst part is the media is reporting this as the work of some evil and
brillaint hacker, who is spreading this indsidious virus. In reality, it
is a bunch of kids that couldn't code there way of out a paper bag. We
will also see more of it becasue it is so trivially easy to be destructive
with the vbscripting facialites in outlook and outlook express.
Jason