» Worms and Hoaxes

In recent days, I was one of the unfortunate persons to receive the “Mydoom” worm emails. Not just one, but at least forty appeared in my popserver mailbox. As frustrating as it was deleting all of these nasty little boogers, I realized that some of these “worm” emails even came from persons I knew – or so I thought I knew. The problem with the “Mydoom” email worm is that it specifically targets email addresses with the following extensions: * .htm * .sht * .php * .asp * .dbx * .tbb * .adb * .pl * .wab * .txt Furthermore, it sends “get”...