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. ;(
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