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MyDoom surpasses Sobig.F
Posted by: Jim on: 01/29/2004 02:33 PM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ]
ZDNet and others are reporting that MyDoom has been crowned the worst virus/worm ever.
F-Secure estimated that the worm was accounting for 20 percent to 30 percent of worldwide e-mail traffic Wednesday, putting it well ahead of previous nasties, such as the SoBig.F worm.For us, Qmail-Scanner has already detected over 10,000 infected emails, and we by no means do a lot of mail traffic. Take a look.
Other security companies had evaluations almost as dire. MessageLabs, which screens e-mail, said it had intercepted more than 3.4 million copies of MyDoom, which infected one 1 of every 12 messages, at its peak. That compares with a total of 33 million infections and a peak rate of 1 in 17 for SoBig.F. MyDoom had already climbed to No. 5 on MessageLabs' list of the all-time most active viruses, surpassing previous annoyances such as SirCam.
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jives BP6 User Posts: 2399 Joined: 2001-05-18 |
#26412 Posted on: 01/29/2004 07:54 PM
I hate to say it but so far I haven't got a single one of those. And as I hate to say it even more seem those Lotus Notes filters work really well. When Sobig came out it killed the notes server since it was set to scan and "clean" attachments which caused the server to eat up so much time trying to clean the virus that it stopped responding. Now they got smart and it scans and deletes so if I am being sent the virus it's getting killed off beofre I even know I was sent it. Though the Lotus account is just one of many accounts I have I figured one or two would slip in thru the other accounts. |
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dualboot_2xcpu Removed from forum Posts: 2396 Joined: 2001-07-16 |
#26413 Posted on: 01/29/2004 09:18 PM
Good non-firewall using and attachment opening users will get this, and allow it to attack eventually SCO w00t. alex I finally have SMP. Looking for the next Mrs. Right now (c) 2004. HEMI. |
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jives BP6 User Posts: 2399 Joined: 2001-05-18 |
#26414 Posted on: 01/29/2004 10:03 PM
version b changes the attack to microsoft instead of sco. |
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dualboot_2xcpu Removed from forum Posts: 2396 Joined: 2001-07-16 |
#26415 Posted on: 01/30/2004 12:06 AM
Damn. alex I finally have SMP. Looking for the next Mrs. Right now (c) 2004. HEMI. |
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AssKoala Anti-Zealot @ GATech Posts: 3302 Joined: 2002-01-02 |
#26416 Posted on: 01/30/2004 12:13 AM
The Mechanical Engineering Department's email system was flooding my inbox with spam because of that worm. Luckily, the CS department is a little smarter when it comes to computer systems. From what I heard, a lot of departments' email systems were violated by the worm. Heh. Me Webpage | If you always think like an expert, you'll always be a beginner. | "A handful of knowledgeable people is more effective than an army of fools" -Writing Secure Code, 2nd Ed. |
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Jig Registered User Posts: 114 Joined: 2000-09-11 |
#26417 Posted on: 01/30/2004 06:02 AM
i'm going to have to agree with some other opinions on this. i think sobig was worse, and i don't see the repercussions from this as being nearly as bad a sobig was in its prime. maybe something big will happen on feb1 |