bugtraq - Re: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig

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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:38:01 +1000 (Australia/ACT)
From: Darren Reed <avalon@...igula.anu.edu.au>
To: bugtraq@....com.br (Fabio Gomes de Souza)
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig

I dispute your claims and put it down to you dealing with things at
a very small level with people who don't usually get much email.

For over a week, I've been getting sobig email at a rate greater
than 1 per minute to just myself at this address.

That's over 1440 per day or close to 10,000 per week.  How many do
your customers get?

A small fraction of it is from anti-virus products.  I don't reply to
any of it and nobody gets it from me.  As soon as I've marked a couple
of hundred for deletion, more have already arrived.

Darren
p.s. If you doubt the numbers I'll happily save a sample and you can
check the volume/time stamps yourself.

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