On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:53:59 EST, Bill Royds <full-disclosure@royds.net> said: > Mydoom.B was not as successful as mMydoom.A because people had already been > warned about clicking on messages with that format. It has nothing to do > with the lethality of the virus. What makes a virus dangerous today is much > less the actual virus code (as Nick says there are very much alike), but the > social engineering of the message and the smarts about where it gets the > email addresses to propagate. Speaking of social engineering... http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/press_release/press_release_0337.xml This is gonna rank right up there with Sober.C's "FBI Dept of Illegal Internet Downloads" and the "Microsoft Security Patch".
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