OK, just what the hell is going on? Like most people, I have received the odd virus now and again, and, except for an early and peculiarly fortunate collision betwen Melissa and a corrupted Outlook (which was so badly corrupted before I got the virus that it kept the virus from running - heh), nothing particularly notable has happened. Weirdly, except for a very few, almost all of the viruses I've received have come at my work email and not my personal email addresses.
Until today.
Today alone, I have received 195 messages containing viruses. And not all the same virus, oh no no no. These are all different. All special in their own perverted little way.
What on earth is going on out there?
(Oh, and for the people running the MyRealBox.com system, I would like to point out that yes, having a virus scanning gateway to catch the virus and notify the user that one was sent to him is a good thing. Having your virus scanning gateway then send on the still-infected virus laden message itself is, however, up there on the list of severely brain damaged things to be doing. Perhaps we might address this wee little problem, yes?)
Oh, and Microsoft is having yet another critical flaw that they want people to patch. Which is just the cherry on the frosting of this virus-choked cake of a day, really.
Posted by iain at July 25, 2003 11:19 AMComments
