Naughty Robot is one of the current known hoaxes going around on the
Internet (the other big one right now is the claim that today --
Feb 14, 1997 a.k.a. Valentines Day -- will be the date of a big
'hacker riot' with massive mail bombing and mail viruses so deadly
you are supposed to delete any e-mail you receive today. I wonder
if they knew that Javascript could be e-mailed and executed).
The hacker riot alert message is debunked as a hoax on Web pages:
http://crew.umich.edu/~chymes/Hoaxes/newhoax.html#Valentines
http://www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/HypeAlert/Riot/
You can find these and other hoaxes (primarily bogus virus alerts
about 'Good Times', Deeyenda, Irina, etc.) as well as general
criteria for recognizing obvious virus hoaxes at the following better
URLs (I dug these up yesterday to quell hype about the 2/14 scare):
Charles Hymes "Don't Spread that Hoax!" page:
http://crew.umich.edu/~chymes/Hoaxes/Think.html
DataFellows hoax information:
http://www.datafellows.com/news/hoax.htm
Dr Solomon's Virus Hoaxes:
http://www.drsolomon.com/special/
IBM AntiVirus Online hype alerts:
http://www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/HypeAlert/
US Department of Energy CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability)
Hoax information:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
Stiller Research Hoax information:
http://www.stiller.com/hoaxes.htm
Symantec AntiVirus Research Center Hoax information:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
>From: rabbi @
www .
valuu .
net (Rabbi Haim Cassorla)
>To: firewalls <firewalls @
greatcircle .
com>
>Subject: Disturbing e-mail
>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 08:01:00 -0500
>
>I received this disturbing piece of email, and was wondering if anyone =
>else on the list has gotten one. I am not worried since I have no =
>personal, private or sensitive info on my server, (or network).
>
>From: Rabbi[SMTP:rabbi @
www .
valuu .
net]
>Sent: Thursday, February 13, 1997 9:38 PM
>To: rabbi @
www .
valuu .
net
>Subject: security breached by Naughty Robot
>
>This message was sent to you by Naughty Robot, an internet spider that
>crawls into your server through a tiny hole is the World Wide Web.
>
>Naughty Robert exploits a security bug in HTTP and has visited your host
>system to collect personal, private, and sensitive information.
>
>It has captured your E-mail, and physical addresses, as well as your =
>phone
>and
>credit card numbers. To protect yourself against the misuse of this
>information, do=20
>the following:
>
>
> 1.Alert your SysOp
> 2.Contact your local police
> 3.Disconnect your telephone, and
> 4. Report your credit cards as lost
>
>ACT AT ONCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Remember: only YOU can prevent DATA
>fires.
>
>This has been a public service announcement from the makers of Naughty
>Robert --
>Car Jacking its way onto the Super-Highway.
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