[vox] Re: New virus?

[Ken Bloom]

On 2003.08.19 18:50, Gregory Young wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 16:05 US/Pacific, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
>> Based on how much this is pissing _me_ off, I cannot _imagine_ how
>> frustrated Windows users must be, what with this coming on the heels 
>> of
>> the recent Blaster worm!  :^(
>> 
> 
> Forget that, the virus found a file containing most of our 
> department's text pager email addresses.  We had to endure being 
> paged by it every couple minutes for about 2 hours.  joy.

I just got attacked by some server that responded to "my" attack by 
returning the *whole* *entire* *message*, including all 104kb of virus
inside it. Multiply that by just a few of these messages, and that's a 
lot of bandwidth (that must be why this virus is called sobig)


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