[88304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Destructive computer viruses from history
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Sat Jan 28 14:59:22 2006
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:56:51 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0601280007570.29049@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Gadi Evron wrote:
>
>>"Even so, 300,000 infected users worldwide is not a terribly large
>>amount when compared to previous worms like Sober or Mydoom. However,
>>with this worm it isn't the quantity of infected users, it is the
>>destructive payload which is most concerning."
>
>
> Vmyths used to be a great source for debunking a lot of the virus
> hype. Everything old seems to be new again. In 1999, the Chernobyl
> virus was the end of the world. It erased disks and BIOS of computers.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/329688.stm
I would quote Dr. Alan Solomon here, but I have to ask for his
permission. You have the right of it.
Back then though, they had no way of knowing how many got infected,
further -- this was down-played by AV vendors until they had no other
choice, for it shows once again how the AV is not an all-powerful
solution for everything anymore.
Gadi.
