Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 2002/07

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Just checking ...
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:08:17 -0400

Gary Truesdail wrote
>>My local newspaper had a new article about
>>hackers maybe related to terrorism business
>>hoping to disrupt the mass communication
>>systems.

Mark Charette wrote,
>Sounds like normal, everyday newspaper sensationalism ...

Probably, but I think that a virus (garden variety, I assume) did give the
clarinet.org web site a try, in between the last two klarinet digests.
Digest number 3914, which generated on 07/07/2002 at 4:05:27 AM Eastern
Daylight Time, was only two messages long and ended with message number
55242. The next thing I got from the list was Digest number 3915, which
generated on 07/08/2002 at 4:05:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time. It began with
message number 55243. There's no break in the numerical sequence of the
messages, in other words.

But there's a message missing. Around midday today (Monday, 07/08/02), I
checked the "Klarinet Latest Postings" on the clarinet.org site to see
whether something was wrong at the site, since no Digest had generated in
more than 24 hrs. and that's unusual. There were two messages under "Latest
Postings." The first one, which has never appeared on the Digests, looked to
me like a virus that the klarinet software translated into a harmless text
file (a long spew of gibberish: code translated to alphabet soup). It did
not appear on Digest number 3915 that generated at least five hours (probably
more) after I visited the site, and didn't affect the numerical sequence of
the messages that do appear.

I just checked again. As of 8:03 Eastern Daylight time, that odd message is
still on the "Latest Postings," along with the messages that have already
gone out as Digest number 3915 and a couple more messages that were sent
after the Digest generated. The sender of the apparent virus is not a screen
name I recognize from the list:

>boxes@-----.com

The thread header is:

>TOP and BOTTOM part 2 END

Lelia
LeliaLoban@-----.com
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