Eggheads: crusade (was: vulnerability)

[Simon Shine]

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Derek Kuliñski wrote:
>>>You forgetting that this is a trojan, even if it's bassed on winegg
>>>it's violating many other things (including DMCA).
>>
>>From the Windrop FAQ "There is very little difference between the code
>>or the operation of Eggdrops and Windrops!"
> 
> I'm not sure if you know that. But indeed windrop is a name that is
> often used for eggdrop that was compiled under windows (using cygwin
> tools).

Yes, that's basically what windrop is. If you refer to the version
released at http://windrop.sf.net/, that is. The policy of not helping
people with windrop issues isn't a global one just because some eggdrop
channels carry that policy. Some problems are naturally associated with
running any piece of software on a defect operating system with its own
set of misbehaviours, and I suppose that's what some old-fashioned fora
don't like adjusting to.

> But the trojan is called WinEggDrop.

There's only one trojan/virus/worm called that?

> Yes, [that's] true I'm even little afraid to tell others that I'm an
> eggdrop contributor...

A-ha!

>>>Maybe we should notify antivirus firms to ask them to call this
>>>product differently? Although I belive they still would put that name
>>>in the list of aliases...

Too many anti-virus firms to convince. Plus, they're right about the
name since somebody deliberately duped it to cheat the average IRC user
who is only getting into IRC lore and might fall for it.

>>So what ever they've done, steal the code or just steal the
>>name/identity and good will the name eggdrop should have generated,
>>the besmirching of the Eggdrop name needs to stop.

I think your crusade is an overreaction. The FBI, the DMCA, anti-virus
firms for the sake of lifting the status of a somewhat, yet still not
very well known piece of open source software? I think the community has
a better hand than petty virus makers who suck at naming their vira.

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