full-disclosure - Mydoom: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead?

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Message-ID: <86brongcor.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
From: merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Subject: Mydoom: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead?

>>>>> "WolfgangK" == WolfgangK  <WolfgangK@...k.korea.army.mil> writes:

WolfgangK> acketst, arin., avp, berkeley, borlan, bsd, example, fido,
WolfgangK> foo., fsf., gnu, google, .gov, gov., hotmail, iana,
WolfgangK> ibm.com, icrosof, ietf, inpris, isc.o, isi.e, kernel,
WolfgangK> linux, math, .mil, mit.e, mozilla, msn., mydomai, nodomai,
WolfgangK> panda, pgp, rfc-ed, ripe., ruslis, secur, sendmail, sopho,
WolfgangK> syma, tanford.e, unix, usenet, utgers.ed

That'd be an interesting defense.  Has anyone tried renaming
their incoming MX machine so that it includes one of these strings?

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