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Has Mass-Mailed Malware Peaked?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-a-huge-percentage-of-my-inbox dept.

Ant writes "Broadband Reports posted a CRN article about researcher saying mass-mailed worms have reached their peak. Six years ago, on March 26, 1999, Melissa, the first virus that spread by mailing copies of itself to e-mail addresses it found on infected machines, swept the Internet. Today, the researcher who led authorities to the hacker who wrote Melissa, says that mass-mailed worms have reached their peak."

2 of 221 comments (clear)

  1. Fuc:k!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    a chil3 4nows filed countersuit, Unless you can work of events today,

  2. To make a cruel joke even worse... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And the payload that's installed via the backdoor is called HIV...