[60911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Don't beat me, but i've noticed a huge influx of these .pif virii
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Aug 19 17:43:47 2003
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:43:11 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "Jade E. Deane" <jade.deane@riven.net>
Cc: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1061324823.27254.14.camel@martini>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jade E. Deane wrote:
> Drew,
> You're not seeing things. I would say you can thank "W32/Sobig.F-mm",
> referenced in http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5065494.html.
>
I'd like to point out that this variant is the most aggressive yet of
the Sobig family. However, I think this aggressiveness is possibly a bug
in the code as the delivery attempts to a single user from a single user
are extremely high. This is, of course, not desired when propogating.
-Jack
