Re: MyDoom download info

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:03:37 +1300, Steve Wray <steve.wray () paradise net nz>  said:

> I've often thought that none of the viruses so far encountered on the
> net are actually serious.
>
> What worries me are the viruses that have been around for a while
> and which have, so far, not been detected; these are the serious
> viruses (I'm assuming that they exist). Viruses that *don't* send
> vast amounts of email and hence get detected; viruses that *don't*
> run under a debugger, that *don't* give themselves away.

What worries me is we haven't seen *either* an actual damaging virus
(imagine if the last 2 lines of Mydoom were "sleep(4hours); exec("format c:);")
or a "sleeper" virus.  At least we can console ourselves with the thought
that a stealthy sleeper virus would almost by necessity have a very low
burn rate, and thus take a long time to compromise a significant number
of systems (if somebody has a way they'd like to share to spread quickly
while remaining stealthy, feel free to comment ;)

I wish I knew which one to be more worried about the lack of.. ;)

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