I must be lucky, I have not received a single email with the virus. It must be a credit to my ISP and the fact that I am behind a firewall.
Mark M. ----- Original Message ----- From: Matson, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'M come Meteorite Meteorites ' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 'Pekka Savolainen ' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: 'Meteorite List ' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:35 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: latest virus wave > Hi All, > > Regarding sobig.f and the latest wave of viruses, Matteo > wrote: "I am full of this emails in my ebay email, at 20 > for day." > > Consider yourself fortunate. At the peak, I was getting 30 > per hour. It is clear from the pattern of spoofed sender > e-mail addresses that at least one of our list members was > infected, and still is. Unfortunately, this virus takes > advantage of the "six degrees of separation" theory -- that > we are all connected to every other human being on the planet > by only 6 connections. (It's probably more than this when > confined to the internet -- perhaps 7 or 8 -- but you get the > idea.) > > Just consider how many addresses you have in your e-mail > address book and raise that to the 6th, 7th or 8th power. > Even allowing for redundancy and the (now) small fraction > of vulnerable computers, it doesn't take long before every > e-mail address is covered. > > Given the loss in worldwide productivity, the culprit or culprits > if ever caught should be sentenced to life in prison with no > possibility of parole. --Rob > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
