-This is most certainly malware and should

-be treated as an active virus hoax.

Its not self replicating so it a trojan. It doesn't cause any damage, so its not malware. Your point is flawed. Obviously they already intended to download UT2k already, or some other software that is obviously not a legal copy. This is no worse than having a cookie installed on your machine.

The telnet comment is cute, but plenty of trojans are already spread in this manner. The naivity is that you seem to be complaining that the water is too wet.

There are already fakes out there installing back doors and spreading trojans. Big suprise.

Even the idea that having it out there incourages the downloading. Those programs were likely already out there in some form or another.

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