The technological solution will come. Filtering is part of the solution, and will come soonest. The REAL solution will likely take a while, since, as MJR points out, it's a hard problem. That leaves us with the social issue. The thinking in the Anti-Virus community about how to deal with this (social issues) has long been to catch one of the buggers and nail his hide up on the wall as a deterrent to the rest of `em. It's significant to note that the Melissa author will be sentenced in May. Hopefully he, and the fella described below, will get their hides "tacked up" in such a way to help with the social issue. donat_private said: > Yeap, that what we just finished doing in Virginia. Had a copycat come > after us Sunday morning. Tracked him down within 2 hour of the attack > and he was sitting in jail within 24 hours of the attack for felony > computer trespass. > Hit em hard and fast. And publicly.... AL -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Al Potter Manager, Network Security Labs | | apotter at-yay icsa ot-day net ICSA Labs | | (If the spambots learn piglatin...) | | PGP Key: 0x58C95451 http://www.icsa.net | | PGP Fingerprint: D3 1D BE 8C B5 DD 12 61 5A 4A 65 32 93 E5 D9 36 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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