Posted by John on 04/01/06 04:26

Ahhhh yes, my time zone is not there yet, is worse than those lame chain
emails.



"Fred" <bluser@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4966iiFn6hr6U1@individual.net...
> John wrote:
>> This is the first time I've heard about it. Got any links to these
>> "reputable" news sources.
>>
>> Funny how google has no records of anything related to "Java-Osmotic
>> Kinetic Exogram"
>>
>> Hammerer, I think you forgot to take your meds today.
>
> Sadly it has already started. Screenshot of what happened to my Azureus
> today :-(
>
> http://www.imgag.com/product/full/ap/3027013/cuzicare2cp.gif
>
>
>>
>>
>> "Hammerer" <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote in
>> message news:zwnfcn2e31zg8ff.010420060201@tb...
>>> Bad news on the peer-to-peer front, I'm afraid. A story, covered by
>>> dozens of reputable news-sources, today, talks about how every major
>>> P2P application connected to the net over the next 24-hour period
>>> will exhibit some definitely odd behaviour. It's eye-watering stuff.
>>>
>>> A new, heuristic virus (technically, a Java-Osmotic Kinetic Exogram
>>> virus) has been quietly infecting all known P2P clients for the last
>>> few days, and
>>> is now about to deliver its payload.
>>>
>>> This will take the form of making the infected clients (around 97%,
>>> it's calculated) cancel all ongoing file up/downloads, and begin to
>>> up & download
>>> *themselves*, to and from each other.
>>>
>>> My analysis of the code, which I've managed to isolate from a range
>>> of experimentally-infected (but inactive) clients, suggests that,
>>> upon activation, a pre-programmed sequence of effects will ensue.
>>>
>>> All BitTorrent clients will immediately begin being uploaded to
>>> Limewire and
>>> Kazaa apps; WinMX will download Direct Connect ++ clients; Kazaa will
>>> download SoulSeek, WinMX, and all Gnutella derivatives; and Shareaza
>>> will download all known clients except for WinMX, and upload itself
>>> to Limewire and kazaa.
>>>
>>> On completion of the alloted instructions, all users will end up with
>>> either
>>> their client of choice deleted, or find that they possess a copy of
>>> someone
>>> else's client, complete with the share-folders of the unlucky
>>> victims. Obviously, this is serious stuff, so over the next 24 hours it
>>> is
>>> imperative
>>> to keep a close eye on your client of choice. If you find it
>>> exhibiting strange behaviour, the only thing to do is to keep your
>>> finger on the Shift
>>> and F1 buttons for the duration (tip - weigh the keys down with
>>> weights to avoid cramp).
>>>
>>> These things happen, but I'm sure we'll all get through this Hell.
>>> Good luck
>>> to everybody. Hang on in there.
>
>

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