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RE: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT
From: Stephen Martin <martins () tigerfuel com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:48:48 -0500
One thing nobody seems to want to recognize as a possibility here is that MyDoom.B didn't take off as much as MyDoom.A precisely BECAUSE of the US-CERT email. A lot of members of the press took that pretty seriously, and warnings on the evening network news shows that you shouldn't open these attachments are bound to have prevented at least some infections.
I would describe the MyDoom virus as hitting the main stream media several days prior [01.27.03] to CERT's email. Most people [non-tech] that I talked to, after 01.27ish had already heard of it and were extremely wary of opening anything. Albeit their e-mail was a catapult to further media coverage, their report was misrepresentative of the malware...which should be the bottom line. Regards, Stephen L. Martin
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- RE: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT Eggers, Bill A [LTD] (Feb 04)
- Re: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT Andrew Fried (Feb 06)
- Re: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT Mary Landesman (Feb 06)
- RE: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT Darragh Bailey (Feb 06)
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- RE: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT Stephen Martin (Feb 11)