full-disclosure - Sobig.F...what took so long

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Message-ID: <87ekzdle9f.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: Sobig.F...what took so long

"Robert Ahnemann" <rahnemann@...inity-mortgage.com> writes:

> So its 4 days after the virus was found, and they just discover that its
> got a list of 20 machines that it will pull from to create a massive
> DDoS across the net?  What took them so long to find it?

The AV vendors deliberately held back this information.