and this $hit just had to happen during student registration and the
return to class

-JP<yee-freakin-haw>

On 8/27/07, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "We've gotten a number of submissions about the new tricks the massive Storm
> botnet has been up to. Estimates of the size of this botnet range from 250K-1M
> to 5M-10M compromised machines. Reader cottagetrees notes a writeup at Exploit
> Prevention Labs on a new social engineering attack involving YouTube. The
> emails, which may be targeted at people who use private domain registrations,
> warn the recipient that their "face is all over 'net" on a YouTube video. The
> link is to a Storm-infected bot that attacks using the Q4Rollup exploit (a
> package of about a dozen encrypted exploits). And reader thefickler writes
> that the recent wave of "confirmation spam" is also due to Storm, as was the
> earlier, months-long "e-card from a friend" series of attack emails."
>
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/26/1558245
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