Tue, 19 Aug 2003
Virus storm rising
In the past hour and a half I've received via email 11 copies of some
kind of Windows worm. My second-level spam filter is
overflowing with the buggers -- luckily as a non-Windows user
I'm pretty much immune, but they're coming in at a rate of
>1Mb/hour. I'm glad I'm not currently collecting my email
via Palm Pilot and mobile phone! Blaster, last week's exploit
du jour (which tried to take down Microsoft's software
update website), had a 6Kb payload, but this obese little
turd carries a 93Kb chunk of code with it, so it looks like a new
one to me. It's the highest level of worm activity I've ever seen, by
somewhere between one and two orders of magnitude, and most
of the initial copies appear to have emanated from Finland,
which makes me wonder. Anyone else seen this, or know what's going on?
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