Has Mass-Mailed Malware Peaked?

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."

Comments

Reached their peak?

[eviltypeguy]

Thinks they've reached their peak huh?

Just wait until the next version of Windows ;)

Peaked...

[fidget42]

or just reached a saturation point? I suppose that "peaked" sounds better.

New Virus

[Anonymous Coward]

Smith pleaded guilty to creating Melissa -- which was named after a topless dancer he knew from Florida -- in 1999, and in 2002 was sentenced to serve 20 months in federal prison.

I hear that now he is working on a new virus in prison called Bubba that will exploit a backdoor.

Yeah, it peaked ...

[jrl87]

just like my stock prices did ... then of course they fell. So, cutting my losses, I sold them. An what do you know, it turns out that they are even higher now.

Peaked on the windows platform

[Anonymous Coward]

New versions of windows could change this. Vast untapped markets remain for Mac and Linux.

exceed only by adding more computers

[icepick72]

They've reached their peak because there are no more computers remaining send them too. All computers are already getting them!

It depends...

[zulux]

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Absolutely NOT! It's worse than ever before!

[Anonymous Coward]

Judging by the numerous virii that I receive in my webmail on a daily basis, I would have to say NO WAY JOSE! Every variant of Beagle / Netsky / you name it is in there. No need to look at the AV sites to see what the latest mass mailing worms are. All I have to do is log into my webmail to find out.

caterpillar

[treebeard77]

does it bother anyone else that the /. "icon" for worm stories is actually a caterpillar. I'll go back to picking my nits.

Re:Harry potter

[Doc Ruby]

Your post reminded me of Hastur the Unspeakable. But I was really channeling the Kwisatz Haderach.

Re:Fear Is the Mind Killer

[value_added]

[The heart of today's problems. Fear of terrorists, fear of criminals, fear of government, fear of people different from us, fear of big changes in the world economy, energy, politics.

So then, choose not to be afraid. Choose something else.

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace you. Choose your future. Choose life.

Alternatively, ... choose this.

If the shoe fits...

[AtariAmarok]

"Holy crap, a Dune reference mistaken for a Harry Potter one? Turn in your geek card, pronto. What's the world coming to?"

Due to the distinct lack of thinking machines and robots at Hogwarts School, there might be something to claims of a Dune/Potter connection. Surely the blast-ended skrewt must be related to the Sandworm.

That's exactly what Don Knuth said

[obdulio]

In a recent interview, he says that he has not seen a single email virus for at least 3 years.....