August 19, 2003Popularity by virusSo far, I have received over a hundred emails from people infected by the new virus, and receiving more every hour. I took some time to see if I knew any of the originators of these emails, so that I could notify them they have been infected in case I happen to know them. Nope. All perfect strangers so far. In some perverted way, you can measure how popular you are by how many infected emails you receive. Corollary: if you haven't received any infected email yet, nobody loves you. Posted by cedric at August 19, 2003 01:52 PMComments
Or all your friends are too savvy to open the things. Posted by: at August 19, 2003 02:32 PMUnfortunately, these viruses use the address book to send out emails, but they also forge the sender identity by using random addresses from the address book. The addresses you see are people who are known by people who know you and got infected ;) The address of the infected computer never appears... or maybe if you look more deeply in the mail headers... Posted by: François PLANQUE at August 19, 2003 04:13 PMI've received a bunch of them on my yahoo.com mail account ... currently, mail.yahoo.com is unavailable : my guess is that this server is just overwhelmed by this mass-mailer virus Posted by: Pierre CARION at August 20, 2003 11:48 AMOh the galling ego of the statement. :> Posted by: Mark Griffith at August 22, 2003 10:35 AMWas just looking for a site like this, thanks Posted by: new virus at June 26, 2004 10:26 PMatigetfyf ualwkoum. Posted by: Owen at August 29, 2004 09:34 AMJust taking a quick coffee break and wanted to post a hello Posted by: new virus at August 31, 2004 03:02 AMWas browsing through blogspot when I stumbled here Posted by: new virus at August 31, 2004 03:02 AMPost a comment
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