The problem is e-mail address impersonation: on infected machines the virus selects half of the contacts addresses as addressee and the other half as sender... This triggers a huge number of answers from the firewalls of thoses addressees who have one... in spite of it all Cheers Lionel
--- Pieter Hulshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2004 12:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Okay > > Cool, a MyDoom virus for my Linux machine! Too bad the virusfilter at my > provider caught it first. ;( > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86