For two days now, I've been receiving e-mails entitled "Hello" or "Hi!" from various addresses, most of them people I know. All of these notes contain really nasty viruses, which my faithful office server has been destroying. Still, it's disconcerting to have these diseased greetings popping up in my inbox every few hours. It's the title that gets me, that innocuous "Hello" from someone I know. I feel like I'm in some cyberspace version of a zombie movie: Friends come up to say hi, and then try to eat my face off. Weird, how I've gotten so acclimated to virtual communication that the betrayal seems personal, and a little unnerving.
Posted by mesh at January 28, 2004 11:55 AM | TrackBackIts this stupid worm that Covenant can't get rid of. I get the same emails, or sometimes I get replies from virus protection software saying I sent an email I never wrote (I actually got one from you Mesh). Quite annoying really.
Posted by: steele at January 28, 2004 12:59 PM"Hi!"
Posted by: paul at January 28, 2004 01:10 PMsorry--couldn't resist.
Posted by: paul at January 28, 2004 01:10 PMMy office's network engineer says that the e-mails contain the infamous "Novarg" virus that's going around these days. Shame on you, Steele. :)
Posted by: mesh at January 28, 2004 01:36 PMI love that you compare it to a zombie movie.
Posted by: gosey at January 28, 2004 03:16 PM