MyDoom.A poised to become biggest worm ever
So MyDoom.A is spreading around the Internet faster than any e-mail worm before it, thanks to ignorant asshat PC users who don't bother to keep up their virus definition files and system administrators who don't bother to keep their networks locked down.
As a Mac user, as usual, I'm on the sidelines on this -- none of the machines in my house or office are affected, thank God, but I *am* affected in my own way: My e-mail inbox has been absolutely deluged over the past 24 hours not only with infected e-mails but with bouncebacks from servers that have rejected e-mails with my spoofed address on them.
So far, I've received hundreds upon hundreds of e-mails like this, and a general in-box we use for press releases and news announcements -- a necessary resource for us -- has been plagued even worse; the count is already in the thousands.
I seriously hope that worm and virus authors have a very special place in hell reserved for them right next door to spammers, and I hope they all die screaming, painful, agonizing deaths. They're absolute fucking vermin of the lowest order. This sort of thing goes way beyond simple inconvenience when you live and work on the Internet.
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No copies of the new virus here, though I had 20-30 copies of SoBig-F per day when it was out and about.
Posted by: Alphax | January 27, 2004 12:19 PM
I feel your pain, Peter. My junk-mail filter, which usually traps 120 messages a day, has now caught 1300 in roughly the past 15 hours.
My inbox, which usually has 1 or 2 stragglers a day that go missed, had 18 messages - all bounces and virus warnings - this morning. I'm amazed that virus utility authors would write a tool to spew about virus infections when the viruses have been demonstrated to forge who they're from. It's inconceivable.
Posted by: Brad Oliver | January 27, 2004 12:43 PM
You might in some small way find this amusing:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/35145.html
I love how someone like "Sir" William of Gates could say something so totally frigging crass as "It would be wrong to say an operating system is more secure because nobody is attacking it," said Gates, in a clear dig at OS rivals such as Apple and Linux.
Posted by: }{ellfire | January 28, 2004 09:33 AM
Peter at least you haven't been comment spammed yet. I managed to stop it, by banning IPs, after 300 of our comment boxes were filled with spammed rubbish. My junk folder is bulging as well. I suspect MyDoom was responsible for .Mac being excruciatingly slow yesterday.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | January 30, 2004 09:18 AM
Marty:
In fact, I have been. But we use MT-BlackList to keep things reasonably under control here.
Posted by: flargh | January 30, 2004 09:20 AM
Brad, Do I know you?
Have you ever been to St Louis?
If yes, hit me up on ICQ: 136547585.
If not - sorry you just remind me of someone.
regards,
Chris
Posted by: Christian | February 2, 2004 10:50 PM