VIRUS WARNING! (Was: Re: [Namron] Test)

[mikea]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:53:34AM -0500, uur at hotmail.com wrote:

Folks, it's a REALLY NASTY WORM called MyDoom or SCO.A or Novarg, 
depending on which antivirus company you ask. 

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I do antispam and antivirus stuff in my day job. This new worm is 
tearing everyone a new orifice. It's _nasty_. Here are the stats 
for the last 8 days, so you can see what I mean: 

         Mails   spamassassin   rejected      scanner       total mails
         Total   says 'spam'    by ruleset    says virus    undelivered
 Jan  27 10742  1030 ( 9.59%) 2228 (20.74%) 2267 (21.10%)  5525 (51.43%)
 Jan  26  8596   970 (11.28%) 2121 (24.67%)  573 ( 6.67%)  3664 (42.62%)
 Jan  25  4101   689 (16.80%) 1472 (35.89%)   12 ( 0.29%)  2173 (52.99%)
 Jan  24  3717   524 (14.10%) 1470 (39.55%)   14 ( 0.38%)  2008 (54.02%)
 Jan  23  7069   748 (10.58%) 1866 (26.40%)    6 ( 0.08%)  2620 (37.06%)
 Jan  22  8153   924 (11.33%) 2244 (27.52%)   24 ( 0.29%)  3192 (39.15%)
 Jan  21  7632   790 (10.35%) 2043 (26.77%)   18 ( 0.24%)  2851 (37.36%)
 Jan  20  7779   851 (10.94%) 2145 (27.57%)   22 ( 0.28%)  3018 (38.80%)

Notice the _BIG_ bump yesterday in all categories. 

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Mike Andrews	/	Michael Fenwick 	Barony of Namron, Ansteorra
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old music Laurel