John Oliver wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:44:21AM -0700, Paul G. Allen wrote:
I'm getting several Mydoom laden e-mails per day from various places. This
has been happening for several weeks. Anyone else having this problem (more
of an annoyance than a problem)?
Are those the ones that try to convince you they're a "Critical Network
Patch"? I started seeing one or two every now and then a few months
ago.
It looks like a mail bounce message from the domain postmaster or admin (in this case
[EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc). There's an attachment that's
zipped. When opened (in Winsucks) it launches the worm that will in turn send itself to
everyone in your address book whenever you turn you computer on and connect to the net.
(It may do other things too, but there's so many trojans, viruses, etc., who can keep up?)
I can see how many lusers there are out there from this thing though. Many times the same
computer will be fired up daily and pump out another Mydoom. Contacting the ISP of the
luser usually results in the luser being informed that their PC is infected and they never
even knew it. If I figure there's 100 other lusers for every 1 that I get these things
from, there's a world full of 'em out there!
What is the oldest virus still propogating? Or the weirdest? Sometimes
I wonder... the ones I'm thinking of came out in '04 I think.
The common cold? :)
PGA
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