[LINK] Novarg / Mydoom / Shimg worm update

[Dr. Bob Jansen]

At 8:04 AM +1100 29/1/04, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>  The message said that the .pif file attached was disallowed and 
>dangerous.  good advice, good server behaviour.

Good advice up to a point, after several such notifications, I'm 
getting annoyed, it's not as if I can do anything about the emails as 
they come from other systems that have harvested my address. I now 
have set up specific rules to trash all emails containing an 
attachment with matching three letter file type.

This also brings back to mind my laughter at Bill Gates' boast about 
stopping all spam in two years (why wait all this time since his 
software is responsible for most of the problem anyway). I read 
yesterday that one of his 'solutions' involved the recipient computer 
sending the originator a puzzle which only a human could solve and 
waiting for the correct response before forwarding on the email. This 
would triple volumes of email, the original, the challenge and then 
the response. So, email volumes would triple, that seems like a 
sensible solution.

bobj