Re: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT

[Stephen Samuel <samuel () bcgreen com>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 07:11:49 EST, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>  said:
> > Second, and more to the point, it takes an extreme view of MyDoom.B that nobody else is
> > supporting, including the sources they cite. MyDoom.B is a flop.
>
> OK. So let's see.  We've got one highly successful virus (MyDoom.A) on the
> loose at the time of writing, another variant that's essentially identical
> except for the target, and no clear indication why this one *shouldn't*
> take off as well.

Most of the time, I'd expect that a copycat virus is going to be
much smaller than the original, since that trick-space is now
going to be saturated.If there's nothing different in the
distribution of the virus, then I'd say they were silly to
presume it was going to be anywhere near as big as MyDoom A.
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