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Re: [Full-Disclosure] MyDoom.b samples taken down
Valdis.Kletnieks
vt.edu
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 22:33:29 CST
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:53:59 EST, Bill Royds <full-disclosureroyds.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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