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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. Speaking of worms by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
    The ones that crawl in are lean and thin
    The ones that crawl out are fat and stout
    Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
    Your brains come tumbling down your snout


    Be merry my friends
    Be merry

  2. underpants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i really don't like my underpants. i bought both boxers and briefs and they're all made of this really slippery fabric. i don't know what this fabric is, but it feels really nice on your skin when you're wearing it but if you feel the underpants with my hands, like i often like to do, it just feels ugly. i dont know why. all that slippery fabric under my fingers and my package wrapped in that artificial stuff. gives me the creeps. or is it just the pot i smoked? maybe thats it. is this only some weird feeling induced by the pot? i dont think so. why do they have to make underpants out of this weird, stretchy stuff anyway? wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just use cotton or something?

  3. Moderator logic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Let me see if I get this straight.

    A joke about a homosexual prison rape is +5 funny, but if you mention HIV, it's -1 flamebait? Good to know.

    1. 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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  4. 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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    Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
  5. I already hate him. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hate him, and I'm a Democrat. If he gets everybody to really think about what is going on, nobody will vote Democrat anymore.