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Subject: Re: [OM] Odd question, an end...
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 14:33:18 +0000
At 18:53 7/29/01, Mickey Trageser wrote:
The SIRCAM virus is taking its toll on mail servers all over. Be patient..

Of this I have no doubt. The SIRCAM email's worm payload is over 300k in size. If a significant number of them hit a particular SMTP server, it could bring it down to its knees rapidly. Thank goodness the OM list server chops file attachments down to 0k in size. If not, it could have been "down for the count" trying to send email to the list a few days ago.

There also seems to be a rise in distributed DOS attacks too (DOS in this context: Denial of Service).

-- John


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