It doesn't come from my system. I don't run windows. But the worm is picking email sender names from cached text files of infected systems. And guess what? My email appears on a lot of pages.

This has been really annoying to me, maybe more than most. I'm dealing with 1500 to 3000 misdirected messages an hour whenever one of these get let loose.

But I've seen a recent report that 10 million (yes million) machines on home broadband connections are infected, which is why each of these MyDoom and NetSky worms are so effective.

Microsoft sucks. There. Had to say it.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to •Re: OT: Well now a worm spreader! by merlyn
in thread OT: Well now a worm spreader! by Marza

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