[Gllug] WTF is going on with these email viruses?

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Thu Aug 21 15:56:17 UTC 2003


On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:38:39PM +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> I've seen exactly the same thing.  However, it's not just the "sobig" worm - 
> there are a couple of others too.  There are M$ mailservers falling over like 
> ninepins at the moment.  Apparently, there's also a couple of nasties doing 
> the rounds that target M$ Exchange - several M$ "admin" types of my 
> acquintance are whinging about the collapse of their systems!

I would laugh but the collateral damage just on my home Linux machine
is bad enough ...

Rich.

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