[meteorite-list] Re: OT: latest virus wave

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:37 2004
Message-ID: <20030829064251.10935.qmail_at_web10310.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello all

now I no receive others similar emails, I have control
for the 4th time my pc and I not have this
virus....strange virus.
regards

Matteo

--- "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com> wrote:
> 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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Received on Fri 29 Aug 2003 02:42:51 AM PDT