Re: When is the last time your received an virus via e-mail?

In article <jg93g1tlbeb4ur91c6qp11rjg33jclkjdr@xxxxxxx>,
jari.lehtonen.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:55:35 +0100, "CheaperThanBT"
> <Ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Anyone else seen a reduction in virus activity? Anyone seen an increase?
> >Are we winning the war against viruses?
> >
> >I know, of course, that viruses have now spread to mobile devices, but I'm
> >shocked at how slowly they have appeared.
> >
> F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen discussed about thin on their weblog
> http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
> where he stated that virus writing has become more commercial
> business. They are not mainly written by eager teenagers but IT pros
> who are doing them against a good money and for a targeted purpose.
>
> Viruses and trojans are used now to change computers to spamsending
> robots, to do phisting of credid card numbers and d.o.s. atttacks. And
> for those purposes some thousand infected machines are enough, mass
> infections are not needed anymore.
>
> Jari
>

All good points. But I received one email with Swen virus tonight. It
is a rather rare occurrence. But in a sense this only reinforces the
two prior points. One, that viruses are sent by infected boxes. And
two, that they are on the decline.

--
James E. Morrow
Email to: jamesemorrow@xxxxxxxxx
.

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