Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4101-1008772157-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:31:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1436 invoked by uid 510); 19 Dec 2001 14:29:20 -0000 Received: from n22.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.72) by all.net with SMTP; 19 Dec 2001 14:29:20 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4101-1008772157-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.165] by n22.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Dec 2001 14:29:16 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 19 Dec 2001 14:29:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 64452 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2001 14:29:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 19 Dec 2001 14:29:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.125.69) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Dec 2001 14:29:15 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fBJEUOl30534 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:30:24 -0800 Message-Id: <200112191430.fBJEUOl30534@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:30:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:A.plague.on.all.our.networks] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A plague on all our networks By John Leyden Posted: 17/12/2001 at 16:19 GMT Incidents of virus-infected emails have soared to unprecedented levels this year with an estimated one in 370 messages containing malicious code. That's the estimate from managed services firm MessageLabs which detected an email every 18 seconds during 2001. By the end of the second week of December, the MessageLabs service had detected and stopped 1,628,750 email viruses in 2001. This compares to just 184,257 viruses in 2000, which amounts to one per 700 emails. The top five most common viruses in 2001 were SirCam.A with 537,523 copies stopped, BadTrans.B with 258,242, Magistr.A with 152,102, Goner.A with 136,585 and Hybris.B with 90,473. At the peak of its outbreak, the recent Goner worm appeared in one in every 30 emails which compares to the most infectious virus ever, the Love Bug, which appeared in an estimated one in 28 emails. Mark Sunner, MessageLabs Chief Technical Officer, said that traditional, re-active virus scanners are no longer enough to combat this threat and proactive virus scanning using heuristics is a better approach. Heuristics have an issue with false positives and tuning this out is much easier with live data obtained over the Internet, he added. ® ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Need new boots for winter? Looking for a perfect gift for your shoe loving friends? Zappos.com is the perfect fit for all your shoe needs! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ltdUpD/QrSDAA/ySSFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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