[CLUE-Talk] Horrible flood of virus e-mails

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 20:01, Matt Gushee wrote:
> I guess this must have something to do with the new worms going around,
> but I am amazed at what's happening to my Inbox. On a normal day I
> probably get 20-40 items of junk e-mail (spam & viruses combined). Today
> I have gotten over 1000!
> 
> I'm just curious: how many are other people getting?

So far, I haven't gotten any directly... that I know of. I use Spamcop
to filter my e-mail, and they started filtering out the SoBig.F crap
early on... however, their service has been slowed significantly since
the deluge began. There's a notice on the login page for Webmail that
they're receiving 7500 copies of SoBig.F-related e-mail, *per hour* -- I
don't know how many subscribers they have, but that's quite a lot of
traffic caused by a virus. I shudder to think what AOL is dealing with. 

I've also been seeing a few bounces and such on the UML-User mailing
list, which probably means that at least one yahoo on the list is using
Outlook. 

Let's see -- this is two massive outbreaks in the space of two weeks,
overlapping one another, no less. I wonder if corporate pro-MS types are
starting to get a clue? 

Zonker
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