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Re: MyDoom.b samples taken down
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:33:29 -0500

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:53:59 EST, Bill Royds <full-disclosure () royds 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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