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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."

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  1. Peaked... by fidget42 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    The dogcow says "Moof!"
  2. New Virus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.