Your post is a stupid attempt to get the Slashdot crowd to actually attempt reading the article before commenting on the feasability of such attacks.
This is "+1, Funny", not "-1, Troll". At least, I didn't take it as a personal attack. OTOH, I still think of Troll as "monster under the bridge". If you define Troll in fishing terms... yeah, he's looking for comments. Aren't we all?
It could have been a *lot* worse. Never click on anything that references 01100111 01101111 01100001 01110100 01110011 01100101 00101110 01100011 01111000 !
My first thought was, "Oh, great, now the 5kr1pt k1dd1e5 will have another instruction manual."
Then, I downloaded the.pdf file, and started reading it. My head's still spinning!
Here's a sample:
When the number of flows in the system is high, a fraction of flows' retransmission timers will expire sufficiently near time (alpha) such that those flows can partially recover and utilize the available bandwidth in the period from time (alpha) to time (beta), when all flows will again experience an outage.
And that's one of the more lucid sentences.
Anyone who would be able to put together an actual attack from this paper probably has enough education to get a real job -- something that doesn't go well with writing malware on the side.
Of course, now that the paper's being discussed on Slashdot, all bets are off!
I don't understand why D can't peck F, or why F can peck D. Was this particular to the arrangement of chickens on the chart you refer to?
As I recall, it's just an observation -- F pecks D, even though F should be "lower" in the pecking order (and indeed, is pecked by E). I think the textbook may have said that this was an intermediate situation -- F is on her way up or down the pecking order, and that "normalcy" will return once F finds her place.
Remember, this was in high school (or possibly before), so I've had almost two decades to forget the details...
not true you are baising your logic on the ordering or the lattice
Cool thought -- too bad it's from the AC!
How indeed would you work a trinary system where:
A > B B > C C > A
In HS biology, there was a chart of "pecking order". The chicken on the top (A) could peck anyone, the next chicken (B) could peck anyone but A, and so on. We had a chart like this, but note what happens to chickens D, E, and F:
o A B C D E F G A - X X X X X X B - - X X X X X C - - - X X X X D - - - - X - X E - - - - - X X F - - - X - - X G - - - - - - -
D can peck E, E can peck F, but F can peck D. So even though D is greater than E, and E is greater than F, D is not greater than F.
This isn't the sort of trinary (ternary, tritiary, whatever) logic I've seen referenced in any of the links I've seen so far.
I learned truth tables when I was a kid, and it was pretty simple:
a and b = ? ----------- 0 and 0 = 0 0 and 1 = 0 1 and 0 = 0 1 and 1 = 1
But how would you make an AND gate for a trinary system? Would it be like multiplication with signs?
a and b = ? ----------- - and - = + - and 0 = 0 - and + = - 0 and - = 0 0 and 0 = 0 0 and + = 0 + and - = - + and 0 = 0 + and + = +
And then quarternary... if it's just pairs of Boolean digits, no problem. It's just a four-input AND:
a and b = ? ----------- 0x and 0x = 0 0x and 1x = 0 1x and 0x = 0 x0 and x0 = 0 x0 and x1 = 0 x1 and x0 = 0 11 and 11 = 1
Or is the whole concept of an AND (OR, NAND, NOR, XOR) gate a relic of my Boolean thinking?
Re:I'd be more sympathetic to anti-spammers, but..
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Sorry, I should have defined the problem more clearly:
Problem is, the spammers are probably stupid enough to try their own product before shipping it. Darn it.
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Spammers are making money hand over fist selling placebos, which means that there is an incredible amount of stupid people that currently populate the internet. If you really want to stop spam, kill the stupids.
You've just hit on the solution! All we have to do is convince the spammers to replace their sugar pill V1a6ara with a slightly more reactive compound. Something like this, perhaps?
Problem is, the spammers are probably stupid enough to try their own product. Darn it.
I suspect that the 20 hardcoded download sites in the current variant are a proof-of-concept, not a future strategy. Every time a virus is exposed that tries to download from some fixed location, I've wondered why virus writers would even try such a thing, when it's obvious that white hats will reverse-engineer their code?
What if the next version uses something more flexible... like a Google search on some particular string? Spend a few months sprinkling links to the download on servers around the world, with pages containing some unique string (call it "foo123"). When the next virus activates, it does a Google search for "foo123", and downloads its replacement. As fast as hosts are removed, more can be created and indexed.
For even better effect, use a moderately common word or phrase that Google couldn't remove from its index without causing big problems.
On the non-technical side... I was struck by the post in a previous SoBig discussion that noted that this variant expires on 9/10, and if the F-Secure expert is right, that's not a good sign:
"I think the motivation is clear. It's money," said Mikko Hypponen, director of anti-virus research at F-Secure, an antivirus firm based in Finland that is decoding the illicit program. "Behind Sobig we have a group of hackers who have a budget and money."
If there's a budget and money, then there's organization, and I'm concerned about the organizations that might see 9/11 as a good day to launch a distributed attack.
Hey, someone, mod parent up! I don't usually whine about the editorial staff, but I suspect that Hemos (the approving editor) decided to try out the benefits of red wine himself, as a reasearch project. Evidence:
* As parent noted, the story has links to yahoo.com and nytimes.com... but no links to anything about the topic of the posting. You could submit a story about goatse guy with those links. Or were the editors testing whether anyone RTFA?
* The story is long. Most good/. submissions I've seen are short and to the point. I've had a few stories accepted, and the ones that made it were the ones that packed the max info into the min space.
* The lame, lame joke. Will a doctor who eats an apple a day explode? Heh heh, funny, but not four long sentences worth.
Here's how I might have written this submission:
RobertB-DC writes "Red wine may reverse the aging process, according to a *New York Times* story (*Yahoo* has a reg-impaired version). A compound called Reserveratrol, which is found in all wines, is especially concentrated in red wines. The UK scientists behind the research theorize that this is why the average Frenchman's lifespan isn't shortened by his high-fat diet. However, it is known that the relationship between the French and British is often described as 'sour grapes'."
This version still needs some editing, but I'll save my incredible powers of submission (that doesn't sound right) for the next time I actually have a dog in the fight.
Before giving kudos to the AC for not Karma Whoring, mods beware. There's at least two items in the text that don't belong:
"Most of Florida communications case law stems from the rotary dildo era," says David Bruns, spokesman for the state Department of Revenue.
The proposed rod pushes the definition of communications systems to include local area networks, or LANs, as well as wide area networks, or WANs, which connect computers across distances.
The original site isn't slowing down, so mod this puppy back down.
It's called a f***ing water heater. Not a hot water heater. Why would one heat "hot" water?
Very good point. On the other hand, why would one heat "f***ing" water, either?
How *would* water f***, anyway?
[thinks entirely too hard about it...]
Aha! That's what happens in cities like St. Louis, when the Missouri and Mississippi rivers come together. The rivers aren't merging, they're *mating*. The baby rivers emerge from their combined parents a little south of New Orleans in what we (silly us) call the Mississippi Delta.
From the good ol' FA: However, others are cautious about the idea. "I don't like mixing water and electricity," says Paul Lee, at QuietPC in North Yorkshire, England, a company that specialises in PC noise elimination. "Even if all the technical details are ironed out, I think it will be five years at least before fans are replaced. They are still the cheapest option."
Poor Paul Lee. He doesn't like mixing water and electricity.
He must take cold showers, because heating water generally requires a device called a "hot water heater", in which an electrically-operated device is actually submerged in water! Horrors!
Actually, he probably takes his baths in the spring out back, since water from a centralized system at some point was pumped by electric motors, and some of that electricity might still be in the water.
If he's not lucky enough to have a spring on his property, his kids probably wake up every morning and hoist the bucket up from the well.
One complaint from a study [uiuc.edu] is that the green traffic lights are actually too bright.
Thanks for the link!
The green LED lights in my town are so bright, it temporarily blinds you if you're looking at it when it changes. The kids and I made up a game -- it's an alien control device. Watch the soothing red... red... red... AAAAGH! It's the brain-piercing green ray of DEATH! My head is EXPLODING!
Obviously, these kids will grow up to be frequent Slashdot contributors...
Back on this planet, when the city installed its first LED lights, they appear to have caused total confusion with the signal control computers. The light by the Whataburger would go from green to green+yellow to red, but the other direction would be black... finally, the traffic department came and put the lights on 4-way blink.
Once they got things fixed, though, there haven't been any problems. Except for that brain-piercing green ray of DEATH, that is.
It's called torture, and brainwashing. If you've ever seen The Mel Brooks kidnapping flick, where the kid was blindfolded the whole time.
I don't know which Mel Brooks movie you're talking about (I'm not a fan), but check this out from the article:
The volunteers were first trained to hunger for the foods at the sight of the abstract fractal images. This took place while the subjects were inside an MRI scanner, allowing their brain activity to be measured.
I know that they have "open MRI" machines these days (heck, they advertise on the radio here), but wouldn't the traditional MRI scanner be disturbingly similar to being blindfolded and forced to lay perfectly still?
I think a notable proportion of the population would tend to go apes*** in those conditions, even without the brain electrodes, fractal images, and piped-in peanut butter smell.
Yeah . . . Bin Laden also got more press after 9/11 and I suppose Hitler had quite a bit of press in teh late 30's early 40's.
It's not fair to classify SCO and Hitler together: the biggest difference is the fact that Hitler was actually a threat. But there are some similarities:
* Both recycled a bogus concept (racial supremacy/copyright infringement) into a plan to take over the world.
* Hitler envisioned a "thousand-year Reich". SCO envisions a "thousand-dollar License".
* Hitler blamed the Jews for his country's troubles as a way of diverting attention from real, structural problems in the country, and got blindsided when the whole free world came out against him. SCO blames IBM for their company's woes to distract investors from real problems in the company, and still doesn't realize that the whole free (software) world is against them.
* Hitler committed suicide, and ensured that everyone around him would suffer a similar fate. Yep, works for SCO.
You know, after the dot-com bust, I wondered where all those "visionaries" went. You know, the ones who could charm millions of American Dollars from venture capitalists and day-trading shareholders with nothing more than a bottle of snake oil and a press release.
I guess I found them:
McBride proudly dumped two phone-book-sized binders of press clippings on the stage during his SCO Forum keynote on Monday as proof that his company had become more relevant in the high technology industry. SCO has issued 46 press releases since filing suit against IBM on March 7. Last year it issued only 29 press releases between March and August.
Here I was, worried about unemployment among the "visionary entrepreneur" community. They're working for SCO! And just look at those results -- they've had a 58% increase in press release generation in just one year! I'm so glad to see that they've landed on their feet.
Too bad the rug's about to get yanked out from under them again.
Interesting article, but just this weekend I watched a special on the Discovery Channel that included this very technique. The cable channel's Nefertiti Resurrected special climaxed with a computer-generated rendering of the "mystery" mummy's face, based on the skull and average tissue thickness at key points. They even noted that the technique was "much faster than traditional clay-sculpture reconstruction"... just like the referenced article.
By the way, I recommend watching the show. Call me superficial, but I liked the look of the actress who played the doomed queen -- especially her dark skin and freckles. Egypt gets a lot of sun, and SPF 45 was still about 2,900 years away. Much more convincing than Yul Brenner, and a darn sight better looking.
Here's my stats of email virii filtered out by Postini:
* Virus Alert These virus-infected messages have been quarantined BEFORE they reached your email inbox. You can safely view the text of the message by clicking on the subject.
Messages Message 1 - 10 of 491 | Next
The only problem I have with Postini is that they send me a note for every single virus email they filter out, and I can't seem to turn that off (like I can the spam notification). So I still have ~620 messages in my inbox, about a hundred of which are bogus "You sent a virus" messages.
I get a lot of those -- generated by infected people who have my email address somewhere on their PC. That's a pretty high number, if the virus mines email addies from web sites like mine that the victim has recently visited.
You'd think the sysadmins would realize that it does no good anymore to tell the sender that they sent a virus, since the "sender" probably had nothing to do with it. [Insert M$-bashing comment about default operation here]
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Moderators don't understand sarcasm today:
Your post is a stupid attempt to get the Slashdot crowd to actually attempt reading the article before commenting on the feasability of such attacks.
This is "+1, Funny", not "-1, Troll". At least, I didn't take it as a personal attack. OTOH, I still think of Troll as "monster under the bridge". If you define Troll in fishing terms... yeah, he's looking for comments. Aren't we all?
This post, of course, is "-1, Offtopic"...
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I've been waiting for a good review on
It could have been a *lot* worse. Never click on anything that references 01100111 01101111 01100001 01110100 01110011 01100101 00101110 01100011 01111000 !
Then, I downloaded the
Here's a sample:And that's one of the more lucid sentences.
Anyone who would be able to put together an actual attack from this paper probably has enough education to get a real job -- something that doesn't go well with writing malware on the side.
Of course, now that the paper's being discussed on Slashdot, all bets are off!
Simple. Silly-ass questions like HURR DOES .9999... EQUAL 1? can be simply replied to with "That is a stupid and irrelevant question.
Finally, an answer I can agree with!
(But deep down inside, I feel like 0.999... is still != 1.0, though it feels very, very close)
I don't understand why D can't peck F, or why F can peck D. Was this particular to the arrangement of chickens on the chart you refer to?
As I recall, it's just an observation -- F pecks D, even though F should be "lower" in the pecking order (and indeed, is pecked by E). I think the textbook may have said that this was an intermediate situation -- F is on her way up or down the pecking order, and that "normalcy" will return once F finds her place.
Remember, this was in high school (or possibly before), so I've had almost two decades to forget the details...
not true you are baising your logic on the ordering or the lattice
Cool thought -- too bad it's from the AC!
How indeed would you work a trinary system where:
A > B
B > C
C > A
In HS biology, there was a chart of "pecking order". The chicken on the top (A) could peck anyone, the next chicken (B) could peck anyone but A, and so on. We had a chart like this, but note what happens to chickens D, E, and F:
o A B C D E F G
A - X X X X X X
B - - X X X X X
C - - - X X X X
D - - - - X - X
E - - - - - X X
F - - - X - - X
G - - - - - - -
D can peck E, E can peck F, but F can peck D. So even though D is greater than E, and E is greater than F, D is not greater than F.
This isn't the sort of trinary (ternary, tritiary, whatever) logic I've seen referenced in any of the links I've seen so far.
What's the number for the patent office again?
I learned truth tables when I was a kid, and it was pretty simple:
a and b = ?
-----------
0 and 0 = 0
0 and 1 = 0
1 and 0 = 0
1 and 1 = 1
But how would you make an AND gate for a trinary system? Would it be like multiplication with signs?
a and b = ?
-----------
- and - = +
- and 0 = 0
- and + = -
0 and - = 0
0 and 0 = 0
0 and + = 0
+ and - = -
+ and 0 = 0
+ and + = +
And then quarternary... if it's just pairs of Boolean digits, no problem. It's just a four-input AND:
a and b = ?
-----------
0x and 0x = 0
0x and 1x = 0
1x and 0x = 0
x0 and x0 = 0
x0 and x1 = 0
x1 and x0 = 0
11 and 11 = 1
Or is the whole concept of an AND (OR, NAND, NOR, XOR) gate a relic of my Boolean thinking?
Sorry, I should have defined the problem more clearly:
Problem is, the spammers are probably stupid enough to try their own product before shipping it. Darn it.
Spammers are making money hand over fist selling placebos, which means that there is an incredible amount of stupid people that currently populate the internet. If you really want to stop spam, kill the stupids.
You've just hit on the solution! All we have to do is convince the spammers to replace their sugar pill V1a6ara with a slightly more reactive compound. Something like this, perhaps?
Problem is, the spammers are probably stupid enough to try their own product. Darn it.
I suspect that the 20 hardcoded download sites in the current variant are a proof-of-concept, not a future strategy. Every time a virus is exposed that tries to download from some fixed location, I've wondered why virus writers would even try such a thing, when it's obvious that white hats will reverse-engineer their code?
What if the next version uses something more flexible... like a Google search on some particular string? Spend a few months sprinkling links to the download on servers around the world, with pages containing some unique string (call it "foo123"). When the next virus activates, it does a Google search for "foo123", and downloads its replacement. As fast as hosts are removed, more can be created and indexed.
For even better effect, use a moderately common word or phrase that Google couldn't remove from its index without causing big problems.
On the non-technical side... I was struck by the post in a previous SoBig discussion that noted that this variant expires on 9/10, and if the F-Secure expert is right, that's not a good sign:
"I think the motivation is clear. It's money," said Mikko Hypponen, director of anti-virus research at F-Secure, an antivirus firm based in Finland that is decoding the illicit program. "Behind Sobig we have a group of hackers who have a budget and money."
If there's a budget and money, then there's organization, and I'm concerned about the organizations that might see 9/11 as a good day to launch a distributed attack.
Hey, someone, mod parent up! I don't usually whine about the editorial staff, but I suspect that Hemos (the approving editor) decided to try out the benefits of red wine himself, as a reasearch project. Evidence:
/. submissions I've seen are short and to the point. I've had a few stories accepted, and the ones that made it were the ones that packed the max info into the min space.
* As parent noted, the story has links to yahoo.com and nytimes.com... but no links to anything about the topic of the posting. You could submit a story about goatse guy with those links. Or were the editors testing whether anyone RTFA?
* The story is long. Most good
* The lame, lame joke. Will a doctor who eats an apple a day explode? Heh heh, funny, but not four long sentences worth.
Here's how I might have written this submission:
RobertB-DC writes "Red wine may reverse the aging process, according to a *New York Times* story (*Yahoo* has a reg-impaired version). A compound called Reserveratrol, which is found in all wines, is especially concentrated in red wines. The UK scientists behind the research theorize that this is why the average Frenchman's lifespan isn't shortened by his high-fat diet. However, it is known that the relationship between the French and British is often described as 'sour grapes'."
This version still needs some editing, but I'll save my incredible powers of submission (that doesn't sound right) for the next time I actually have a dog in the fight.
Before giving kudos to the AC for not Karma Whoring, mods beware. There's at least two items in the text that don't belong:
"Most of Florida communications case law stems from the rotary dildo era," says David Bruns, spokesman for the state Department of Revenue.
The proposed rod pushes the definition of communications systems to include local area networks, or LANs, as well as wide area networks, or WANs, which connect computers across distances.
The original site isn't slowing down, so mod this puppy back down.
It's called a f***ing water heater. Not a hot water heater. Why would one heat "hot" water?
Very good point. On the other hand, why would one heat "f***ing" water, either?
How *would* water f***, anyway?
[thinks entirely too hard about it...]
Aha! That's what happens in cities like St. Louis, when the Missouri and Mississippi rivers come together. The rivers aren't merging, they're *mating*. The baby rivers emerge from their combined parents a little south of New Orleans in what we (silly us) call the Mississippi Delta.
From the good ol' FA:
However, others are cautious about the idea. "I don't like mixing water and electricity," says Paul Lee, at QuietPC in North Yorkshire, England, a company that specialises in PC noise elimination. "Even if all the technical details are ironed out, I think it will be five years at least before fans are replaced. They are still the cheapest option."
Poor Paul Lee. He doesn't like mixing water and electricity.
He must take cold showers, because heating water generally requires a device called a "hot water heater", in which an electrically-operated device is actually submerged in water! Horrors!
Actually, he probably takes his baths in the spring out back, since water from a centralized system at some point was pumped by electric motors, and some of that electricity might still be in the water.
If he's not lucky enough to have a spring on his property, his kids probably wake up every morning and hoist the bucket up from the well.
And we don't even want to think about his other bathroom facilities...
One complaint from a study [uiuc.edu] is that the green traffic lights are actually too bright.
Thanks for the link!
The green LED lights in my town are so bright, it temporarily blinds you if you're looking at it when it changes. The kids and I made up a game -- it's an alien control device. Watch the soothing red... red... red... AAAAGH! It's the brain-piercing green ray of DEATH! My head is EXPLODING!
Obviously, these kids will grow up to be frequent Slashdot contributors...
Back on this planet, when the city installed its first LED lights, they appear to have caused total confusion with the signal control computers. The light by the Whataburger would go from green to green+yellow to red, but the other direction would be black... finally, the traffic department came and put the lights on 4-way blink.
Once they got things fixed, though, there haven't been any problems. Except for that brain-piercing green ray of DEATH, that is.
Foo: Call me superficial
Bar: Ok, you are superficial!
Cool! Let's try that again!
Call me the one who posesses durable power of attorney over your bank account, but I think that teller's cute!
(I think I just found the n-1: ??? that comes right before n: Profit!)
It's called torture, and brainwashing. If you've ever seen The Mel Brooks kidnapping flick, where the kid was blindfolded the whole time.
I don't know which Mel Brooks movie you're talking about (I'm not a fan), but check this out from the article:
The volunteers were first trained to hunger for the foods at the sight of the abstract fractal images. This took place while the subjects were inside an MRI scanner, allowing their brain activity to be measured.
I know that they have "open MRI" machines these days (heck, they advertise on the radio here), but wouldn't the traditional MRI scanner be disturbingly similar to being blindfolded and forced to lay perfectly still?
I think a notable proportion of the population would tend to go apes*** in those conditions, even without the brain electrodes, fractal images, and piped-in peanut butter smell.
Oh, give the editors a break:
Humans have been trained to yearn for ice cream in the same way as Pavlov's fabled bell.
I know that as written, it's saying that Pavlov's bell yearned for ice cream. But I'm sure they meant to say:
Humans have been trained to yearn for ice cream in the same way as for Pavlov's fabled bell.
. . . meaning that humans have been trained to want ice cream as badly as they wanted Pavlov's bell.
After all, what else could they have meant?
My point was simply that more press coverage isn't always a positive.
Point taken! I was just free-associating and found some interesting parallels. I was shooting for humor, but it took a turn to the "dark humor" side.
My next moderation option suggestion: "+1, Darkly Funny"
Yeah . . . Bin Laden also got more press after 9/11 and I suppose Hitler had quite a bit of press in teh late 30's early 40's.
It's not fair to classify SCO and Hitler together: the biggest difference is the fact that Hitler was actually a threat. But there are some similarities:
* Both recycled a bogus concept (racial supremacy/copyright infringement) into a plan to take over the world.
* Hitler envisioned a "thousand-year Reich". SCO envisions a "thousand-dollar License".
* Hitler blamed the Jews for his country's troubles as a way of diverting attention from real, structural problems in the country, and got blindsided when the whole free world came out against him. SCO blames IBM for their company's woes to distract investors from real problems in the company, and still doesn't realize that the whole free (software) world is against them.
* Hitler committed suicide, and ensured that everyone around him would suffer a similar fate. Yep, works for SCO.
You know, after the dot-com bust, I wondered where all those "visionaries" went. You know, the ones who could charm millions of American Dollars from venture capitalists and day-trading shareholders with nothing more than a bottle of snake oil and a press release.
I guess I found them:
McBride proudly dumped two phone-book-sized binders of press clippings on the stage during his SCO Forum keynote on Monday as proof that his company had become more relevant in the high technology industry. SCO has issued 46 press releases since filing suit against IBM on March 7. Last year it issued only 29 press releases between March and August.
Here I was, worried about unemployment among the "visionary entrepreneur" community. They're working for SCO! And just look at those results -- they've had a 58% increase in press release generation in just one year! I'm so glad to see that they've landed on their feet.
Too bad the rug's about to get yanked out from under them again.
That afro was ... obscene. I want to know how they know all that ... I kinda felt like I was watching futurama.
Futurama? That looked more like something out of Superfly!
Disclaimer: The author of this comment has never actually seen the film, "Superfly".
Interesting article, but just this weekend I watched a special on the Discovery Channel that included this very technique. The cable channel's Nefertiti Resurrected special climaxed with a computer-generated rendering of the "mystery" mummy's face, based on the skull and average tissue thickness at key points. They even noted that the technique was "much faster than traditional clay-sculpture reconstruction"... just like the referenced article.
Jump here to see the results.
By the way, I recommend watching the show. Call me superficial, but I liked the look of the actress who played the doomed queen -- especially her dark skin and freckles. Egypt gets a lot of sun, and SPF 45 was still about 2,900 years away. Much more convincing than Yul Brenner, and a darn sight better looking.
Here's my stats of email virii filtered out by Postini:
* Virus Alert
These virus-infected messages have been quarantined BEFORE they reached your email inbox. You can safely view the text of the message by clicking on the subject.
Messages
Message 1 - 10 of 491 | Next
The only problem I have with Postini is that they send me a note for every single virus email they filter out, and I can't seem to turn that off (like I can the spam notification). So I still have ~620 messages in my inbox, about a hundred of which are bogus "You sent a virus" messages.
I get a lot of those -- generated by infected people who have my email address somewhere on their PC. That's a pretty high number, if the virus mines email addies from web sites like mine that the victim has recently visited.
You'd think the sysadmins would realize that it does no good anymore to tell the sender that they sent a virus, since the "sender" probably had nothing to do with it. [Insert M$-bashing comment about default operation here]