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Re: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:07:06 -0500
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:33:47 PST, Stephen Samuel said:
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.
In general, yes. However, in this case it was a copycat that got loose *before* the general population got the meme for "this is bad, don't click on it". And remember - they need to get a new meme for each specific instance, as the average user can't seem to generalize this. (Hmm.. didn't Stephenson's "Snow Crash" talk about that? ;)
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