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Posted 03 December 2005 - 02:58 AM
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Apparently, messages from the FBI and CIA are the way to spread worms, a security firm said Thursday as it tallied up Sober's wildfire spread during November and concluded that the outbreak was the biggest ever.
E-mail security provider Postini said that it had quarantined more than 218 million Sober-infected messages in the last seven days, more than four times the 50 million-message average that it blocks in a run-of-the-mill month.
"This Sober generated close to a 1500 percent increase in virus-infected email traffic in the past week,” said Scott Petry, vice president of products and engineering at Postini, in a statement...........
ContinueE-mail security provider Postini said that it had quarantined more than 218 million Sober-infected messages in the last seven days, more than four times the 50 million-message average that it blocks in a run-of-the-mill month.
"This Sober generated close to a 1500 percent increase in virus-infected email traffic in the past week,” said Scott Petry, vice president of products and engineering at Postini, in a statement...........
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