Stupidity. Plain & Simple.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] New, fast-spreading virus-- filename="document.zip" > On 27/01/2004 at 10:24:36, R. Scott Perry wrote: > > > It's the fastest spreading virus we have ever seen. We estimate that our > > customers have received over a million copies in the 3 hours since the > > first copy was sent out. Our customers that are running the latest beta > > version of Declude Virus that are using the new automatic detection of > > forging viruses have received copies of the virus from over 8,000 unique > > IPs so far. > > To me, that's the saddest thing of all about this outbreak. It's a virus > which does absolutely no social engineering or trickery at all (forged > and therefore probably unknown sender, meaningless filename, no body > text, no Outlook-exploiting headers), but a whole lot of people seem to > be running it. I'd love to know why. > > Cheers, > Evan > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
