[meteorite-list] OT: latest virus wave

From: Mark Miconi <mam602_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:37 2004
Message-ID: <001b01c36e2d$6e0f8380$d7e16a44_at_ph.cox.net>

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 <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com>
To: 'M come Meteorite Meteorites ' <mcomemeteorite2000_at_yahoo.it>; 'Pekka
Savolainen ' <pekka.savolainen_at_dlc.fi>
Cc: 'Meteorite List ' <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
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
>
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