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echo: nthelp
to: Glenn Meadows
from: Mike N.
date: 2006-06-29 17:49:02
subject: Re: WGA Trojan: Putting Privacy Last

From: Mike N. 

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:50:29 -0500, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote:

>I'm surprised some hacker group hasn't reverse engineered the WGA tool, and
>caused a mass de-activation worm.

  Probably won't happen - then how would the spammer send Spam?  There'd be
no more bots to sell to the Botnet herders.

  But there is a small group of hackers that might do this type of thing -
like whoever wrote the virus that was going to attack www.windowsupdate.com.

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