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...third major virus epidemic this year, following Mydoom in January and Bagle.J in February. Sasser is transmitted much faster than any of these and is not detected by such virus scan programs as McAfee and Norton...
...you’re a victim of social engineering—a tactic used by the latest viruses to trick you into downloading an attachment. Socially-engineered viruses aren’t new, but their recent rise in sophistication is. Viruses like Sobig, Mydoom, Netsky and Bagle “spoof” (or fake) sender addresses, create believable e-mail texts and give their attachments harmless names, all in an effort to convince you to download and run their harmful payloads. Bagle.J, for instance, sent a message to Harvard students from what appeared to be “Harvard.edu...
...started with the January 27 release of Mydoom.A. At its peak, this first variant of Mydoom accounted for 8.3 percent of all e-mails moving across the Internet—one out of every 12 e-mails processed—according to the e-mail-filtering firm MessageLabs. The virus launched a vengeance Denial of Service attack against the SCO Group, a company that has claimed ownership of some of the code used in open-source Linux distributions. With millions of computers sending token bits of data 12 times every second, Mydoom’s attack would have easily overrun...
...Soon Mydoom joined the verbal assault against Netsky in a new variant, Mydoom.G. Part of the internal code drew a poor comparison between Netsky and the “Skynet” of the Terminator movies: “imho, skynet is a decentralized peer-to-peer neural network. we have seen P2P in Slapper in Sinit only. they may be called skynets, but not your shitty...
...retort, virus-coders on all sides release new variants with new social engineering tactics. There are now 21 official variants of Bagle and 17 of Netsky. And in this hackers’ spitting contest there are only millions and millions of losers—Internet users. Netsky, Bagle and Mydoom together have caused over 100 billion dollars of estimated damage to personal and commercial computer systems, according to Internet security firm mi2g. All this havoc, so few grammatical skills...