Scripsit ille Zeruel333 The Hentai One <zeruel333@aol.comanimefan>
> well, I opened my email today to see something that looked like a virus, so I
> opened the letter and saw a bunch of code (had to highlight it because it was
> black text with a black background) and a message from aol saying
>  "Only the first part of this message is displayed. The entire message has been
> turned into a text attachment, which you can retrieve by selecting Download.
> Once downloaded, open it with a word processor or text editor for reading"
> Which means one thing: Mr. Dumbshit sent an attachment that was a virus that
> was over the aol size limit (I think he encoded it into the email to activate
> when I opened it and that caused it to get screwed up because there's a limit
> on how big an email can be) and aol did their job of fucking stuff up to it.

So there *is* something about AOL which is not bad. Thanks for your
information!

> I also discovered it was someone on Direct Connect that did it to me with this
> address as the return address: baby@loveme.d2g.com (too bad I cant reply and
> tell him how fucking stupid he is)

This address could even be valid: the domain part is a valid dns2go
address which has a correct MX entry in the mail server.

So probably you can only mail him while he's online. But if he uses such
an address, he has to be online 24h/day. Otherwise the address is not
valid and he's a - as you already pointed out - Mr. Dumbshit.

BTW: Does your 'spam protection' in your mail address (the appended word
"animefan") really work? I wouldn't think so because I suppose most
spam scripts see 'aol.' and no matter what comes after that, it's
replaced by 'com'.

> Everyone should now know that I NEVER open attachments from an unknown sender;
> this oughta teach him a lesson

You also should never open attachments from known senders. Viruses often
come from known senders who have you in their address book, while
trojans often come from almost unknown senders that read your mail
address somewhere.

But I never saw a virus which announced its attachment in a separate
mail... so I only open attachments that are safe (image formats are
safe) or have been announced or requested. No matter who it's from.

I think it was a trojan (he probably wanted to access or destroy data on
your computer). The size of the file tells me that - viruses are
normally small enough to get through these size limits. Try to find
out the mail provider he's sent it with and report him to his ISP.

-- 
my$e=0;sub Q($){$e+=$_*(7,3,1)[$i++%3]for split//,$_[0];return $e%10}my
$b=1e8+int rand(1e9-1e8);my$g=sprintf'%02d'x3,rand 100,1+rand 12,1+rand
28;my($c,$h,$f)=map Q $_,$b,$g,$e;my$x=Q("$b$c$g$h$e$f");print"$b$cD ".
"$g$h $e$f $x\n";731731731731731731731731731731731731731731731731731731