Either Hotmail pre-filters all the MyDoom e-mail or I am glad to have a relatively unknown website :D I haven’t got a single one of the MyDoom viruses. Definitely one of the advantages to using a web-based e-mail system like Hotmail.

I’m getting close to 200 e-mails a day. It’d be nice, if MTA’s could stop sending bounce backs :) It can’t be THAT hard, surely. There’s SO many morons spreading this virus it’s not cool. A strict version of *insert MTA here*(sendmail) will drop the messages anyhow.

I’d like to see a 2 pronged attack:-

1) get SA’s to lock down their MTA’s a bit better (Spam Assasin anyone) [for the bounce back]

2) somehow educate users to stop opening EXE’s. This has to leave the corporate world and end up being 2nd nature to all users, just like the ideals of safe sex (it’s going to be a long time coming if it’s only taught in high schools)

Yeah, I seem to be getting them in waves … because of this damn virus, I had to change the catchall on one of my domains to my yahoo spam-magnet address instead of my real address (with the real address off that domain set up to work, of course) … since I was getting a lot of them addressed to nonexistant addresses, namely [randomname]@my.domain.au.

I have to say I never got so many emails from any other virus before.

As for fighting it (and all future such virii), it would probably be better to just prohibit sending executable files by email. I mean, hoten do you legitimately *need* to send an .exe by email, as opposed to any of the dozens of other distribution methods (upload it to a webserver and email a link, for example, not to mention ICQ and brethen…)? Sure sending it in an email might be more convenient, but I for one would gladly agree to never send an executable over email again if it meant never receiving a mailbox full my MyDoom again, and I’m sure those of you getting 200+ copies per day feel the same way.

It wouldn’t be hard to enforce either, just prohibit the appropriate MIME types and extensions … even zip files would be a pretty safe one to ban.

Also maybe such a drastic measure would wake up all those idiots who still, after all these years, get caught by these “unzip the file, and run the executable inside” type of virus (it’s almost like the Honour System Virus* mentioned on slashdot…), and they will clue in a bit, and then we won’t have to take such harsh measures to stop the next popular method of virus distribution.

* Honour System Virus – when you get the email, just forward it to all your friends and delete all your important files.