full-disclosure - MyDoom.b samples taken down

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: MyDoom.b samples taken down 

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:53:59 EST, Bill Royds <full-disclosure@...ds.net>  said:
> Mydoom.B was not as successful as mMydoom.A because people had already been
> warned about clicking on messages with that format. It has nothing to do
> with the lethality of the virus. What makes a virus dangerous today is much
> less the actual virus code (as Nick says there are very much alike), but the
> social engineering of the message and the smarts about where it gets the
> email addresses to propagate. 

Speaking of social engineering...

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/press_release/press_release_0337.xml

This is gonna rank right up there with Sober.C's "FBI Dept of Illegal
Internet Downloads" and the "Microsoft Security Patch".
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