[ILUG] MyDoom.O

Ken Gilmour ken at playersonly.com
Mon Jul 26 19:36:47 IST 2004


On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:28:12 -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
> ...is the worm that's hitting ILUG.  The reason ILUG's getting hit
> so much is because its archives have a good Google Page Rank, and
> contain copious mailto: tags to ilug/at/linux.ie -- MyDoom.O uses
> Google as a vector to find new addresses, so high-Page-Rank pages
> with mailto links are its bread and butter. ;)
>
> --j.
Hmm,

I'm on the Debian-user and Debian-firewall lists too and they don't seem
to be generating as many returned mails, however, i was wondering how
some mails were returned from my own address so this confirms why :-)

Thanks

Kenny






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