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Re: MyDoom download info
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:25:04 -0500
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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