[98336] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gwd: crypted document
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Atkins)
Fri Aug 3 00:52:26 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070803022228.GB793805@hiwaay.net>
From: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 21:03:39 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Aug 2, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, Hex Star <hexstar@gmail.com> said:
>> Why would someone in the ISP industry try to spread a virus?
>> Ironically I
>> suppose a ISP admin may have their own computer infected... :P
>
> Why would someone assume that the sender in a virus email is valid?
A few, it's because the developers really are that stupid.
Mostly, though, it's that they think that if they pretend to be that
stupid then they
can advertise their product via spam that's sent from a wide variety
of places
that can't all be easily blocked. (Most of the developers I've talked
to say that they
know it's stupid, but that's the product requirements they have to
work with).
Cheers,
Steve
