Jun 03, 2004

Who's the Girl in the Beagle.24 Virus Messages

Beagle.24 (aka WORM_BAGLE.X) is still running rampant on a few systems, and has spammed our directors account with some very heavily socially engineered emails designed to lure lonely computer geeks into clicking.

The address is also forged to look like it's coming from inside our machine, and with no SPF (or Microsoft CallerID) patch from M$, we're stuck getting these. We're going to have to check out the open source spf exchange plugin soon if this gets any worse.

Check out how creepy these emails are. I know quite a few people who might click on something like this if they thought for a minute it was real.

My big question: who are these poor girls that have ended up all over the internet, in a virus email no less! How bad would that suck to have someone you know get this thing if it was you?

From: secretGurl@cg.org [mailto:secretGurl@cg.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:38 PM
To: Name Protected
Subject: I like you

Hey NProtected,

Cometime I write a poem, play the gitar. I love a traveling, I like a romantice and I want to meet, comeday, my big love!

Attached file will tell you everything.

Yours, SecretGurl


From: christina@cg.org [mailto:christina@cg.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:30 PM To: Name Protected Subject: Notify from a known person ;-)

Hi,

It's me

I very much love new acquaintances, I love music, meetings with friends. I go on night clubs, except for parties I sometimes visit theatres and I love cinema. In general I only shall be glad to new acquaintance and class dialogue...

For more information see the attached file.

Yours, Christina

Harry Potter 3 Game is Out Today

The Prisoner of Azkaban PS2 game is out today, and we'll either be renting it or buying it soon. Sara and I both thoroughly enjoyed playing through Harry Potter 2 on the PS2; the puzzles were interesting and fun, and the action thankfully errs on the side of being too easy, giving you just enough challenge while not burning you out because you're stuck for hours. Sara rarely hands me the controller in exasperation while playing this series.

The games steal a lot from other 3rd person titles like Tomb Raider, Tenchu, and Metal Gear, but in doing so mix up the game play enough that you're entertained throughout, whereas you can tire easily of just creeping around all the time, or just blasting stuff while you run.

The new installment is getting decent reviews, and seems to be similar in play to the first two, although you can play as Ron and Hermione in this one, and there are more side games. New to this edition are 2 player mini-games like dueling club and "Flying Seahorse Fishing." For owners of the Eye-toy, there's also a set of HP themed games which you can play with up to 4 friends.