Re: OT: HEADS-UP: viral storm out there
От | Robert Treat |
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Тема | Re: OT: HEADS-UP: viral storm out there |
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Msg-id | 1064239537.30308.1753.camel@camel обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: OT: HEADS-UP: viral storm out there (Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>) |
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Re: OT: HEADS-UP: viral storm out there
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Список | pgsql-general |
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 18:47, Christopher Browne wrote: > After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, ron.l.johnson@cox.net (Ron Johnson) belched out...: > > On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 17:16, Christopher Browne wrote: > >> Nikola.Milutinovic@ev.co.yu ("Nikola Milutinovic") writes: > >> > This is off topic and is a cross-post, so I'll be brief. There is a > >> > very nasty virus out there and I urge everybody to get their AV in > >> > order. The virus is known as: "W32.Gibe-F" or "W32.Swen-A". > >> > >> CERT has a report on it (if the URL resolves :-(). > >> > >> http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#swena > >> > >> I have been receiving _thousands_ of these today, and others are > >> reporting similar. It's as bad for us not running W32 as it is for > >> those that are... > > > > Except they can get infected. > > No, it can be worse for "us" that aren't infected, because our systems > are a little more robust so that instead of falling over due to the > load, we wind up actually receiving all the messages, which is a > further problem. > > In the end (and we're not exactly at the "end" yet), I wound up > receiving about 1500 of the messages, which, after I punted them into > my ~/Mail/deleted path, and cpio'ed and gzipped them, turned into > about 80MB of compressed material, corresponding to probably 170MB of > data. (Yes, I'll purge it.) > > My systems didn't go down, but 170MB of bandwidth got eaten. I'm just > lucky that my ISP has recently moved over to a "we don't charge for > overuse of bandwidth" policy. There used to be a fee for going over a > certain "cap." I'm waiting for the day that someone fires up a class action lawsuit against m$ for all the excess bandwidth fees users end up paying due to bugs in m$ software. That or the government decides to issue a recall on outlook due to the monumental cost it has on the nations economy... we seem to recall every other sort of product, why not software? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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