[netmilsmom]

You know, I got an e-mail from Prayermanager this morning. I had never signed up for these and have tried to unsubscribe. Anyway, this one just said, "The Movie" as an attachment. I blew it out.

Was it a worm?

[Steve_Seattle]

In my opinion, the penalty for Internet sabotage, creating viruses, etc., should be life imprisonment. I am so tired of these smelly little creeps.

[thoughtomator]

Okay, let's reason this out. If the virus is setting up spam relays, have the FBI track down the beneficiaries of the relay (by the totally obvious method of responding to the spam, posing as a customer) and bust them for everything that could possibly stick.

[PoorMuttly]

Muttly want SoBig worm.

Muttly eat Spam...yum !

Can Muttly have more Spam now ?

SoBig worm nice. Muttly WANT !!!

[Physicist]

I hope the writer of this worm appreciates that people are routinely killed for sums of money that are a tiny fraction of what he cost probably tens of thousands of people and companies.

I wouldn't kill him, myself, but if his mortal remains turn up in a suitcase somewhere, and somehow I know how they got there, I won't be sharing that knowledge with the police.

[Mike Fieschko]

The Welchi, or Nachi, worm, which surfaced on Monday, infected 72,000 computers used by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps

I thought the Lexington and Ticonderoga took out the



Nachi back in 1944

[browardchad]

I just downloaded an evaluation copy of Mailwasher (firetrust.com), and it's really coming in handy. The setup is fairly easy, but the neat feature is that it accesses incoming mail (from one or multiple accounts) on the server, before it's downloaded. From there, you can choose to view the entire message (photos & attachments are blocked), view just the header, and then either blacklist it (the sender or the entire domain), bounce it back to the sender, delete it, add it to a friends list, or set up a filter for it. You still have to open each mailbox in your e-mail program to download the messages you actually want on your computer, but it prevents spam -- both dangerous and innocuous -- from ever reaching your computer.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I ran stinger - so far, it looks like my box is clean, but two others on the network were infected.