Mytob strikes again
Egads. The fact that people are opening this Mytob virus despite the utter illogic of its social engineering is scary enough, but what’s even more scary is how much of a bandwidth eater it and others of its ilk are. Here’s a screenshot of what greeted me when I checked my mail late this afternoon, after spending the morning and early afternoon on a trip away from the computer.
OK, so maybe I’m partly at fault for having a catch-all account, but still. At least you can’t say I’m helping to spread it… I’d have to load up Virtual PC and copy it into a shared folder if I even wanted to execute this trash in the first place. 🙂
Edited 2005/06/10 to add: Oh, yeah, and it was surprisingly easy to filter on the server side, too. How? Well, suffice it to say there’s no such product as “Zone38 Antivirus”, so why would any legitimate e-mail mention it? Of course, this needs to be changed to apply to your own domain, but still, it’s prevented me from having a mailbox looking like the one in the screenshot above…
Is that “Account Alert” one actually the virus too? I notice it has a different size to the others…
Oh, and hi. 🙂 I believe this is my first comment here, although I’ve been reading for a while.
Comment by Ciaran — 24-Jun-2005 @ 7:58 pm
Yep. It’s a different (and much smaller!) strain, but there was some sort of infected attachment on it.
Comment by codeman38 — 24-Jun-2005 @ 10:45 pm