Wonder why the Interweb be so slow lately?
http://news.google.com/news?q=sober%20worm&num=30- - -
Darren's StorySo I'm in one of my Hotmail accounts and I notice the # of pages in the junkmail folder is 46.
At 20 messages per screenful, if I had been drinking at the time I woulda done a Danny Thomas spit-take.
I changed my mail display options so I saw 100 at a time. 10 pages.
Nearly all of them dated May 4th and May 5th. 73KB in size. Containing an attachment. Opened a couple, vastly different subjects and senders and even body contents. ZIP file.
I personally have never seen a virus spread this fast. Insane, I tell ya.
Check your own junk mail accounts, people, if you have one. Look at the genius behind the virus writer, evil genius that is. Sometimes looks like a "registration information attached", sometimes "your email was blocked", sometimes "here are the droids you are looking for".
Creative, that bastage. :P
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Summary of this evil work of evil genius:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen...sober.i@mm.html"...
by Wednesday was accounting for 70 percent of all malicious code traffic..." ; "...
One in every 22 emails sent across the internet is currently infected by the Sober-N worm... :blink: Ah, the wonders of SOCIAL ENGINEERING! :angry: :angry: :angry: :blink: :angry: :angry: :angry:
My Telus accounts have been pummelled, one account I don't even have posted anywhere (I used to use it for server notification) and I get over 1000 pieces of feces a week.