More French Heatwave Fallout
Posted by GruntDoc on 26th August 2003
Seems 50 victims of the recent heat wave in France aren’t being picked up by their loved ones. the dissident frogman | Pick Up Your Dead
Wow.
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Archive for August 26th, 2003
SoBig finally makes it to my house
Posted by GruntDoc on 26th August 2003
Frankly, I’d been feeling a little left out. There’s this fun new email worm (SoBig.F), and I hadn’t gotten any! How odd, thought I.
Until this afternoon, when I got 11 infected emails in a row, all from different senders (I know it wasn’t them sending, but that’s beside the point).
Fortunately, I’m a paranoid, and not only run a firewall that quarantines ‘bad’ email attachments, but also a slick anti-virus program. And there’s a new worm variant supposed to come out soon (so this was a beta test version).
CNN reports that spammers may be the driving influence behind this. I hope that’s true, that’ll finally get our congress interested in spammers, and off evil college kids swapping MP3′s.
Update: roughly an hour later, I’m up to 23. Hmm.
Update2: then after 33 virus-laden emails, it suddenly stops. I figure the hosting service is running some kind of screener program, and it shut down temporarily. If so, thanks, Jumpline! If not, things are ever weirder than I thought.
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