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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. Re:You are forgetting. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    They are not perfectly OK annexing Taiwan against its will. It is a separate country, and everyone knows it is an treats it as such except for the imperialists in Beijing. If Taiwan wants to become part of the PROC, fine, but that should be the choice of Taiwan alone.

    Why should we get involved?

    I guess you are right, if East Asians don't really matter and it is OK that someone slaughters hundreds of thousands of them.

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  2. Re:Moderator logic by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Combine them and its still a +4."

    No, +4's are those funny pants golfers wear.

    (This post provided as an example of -1, Offtopic for the information of the public).

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