Geek Speak — HabitableZone

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How big is my e-mail junk load? SOOO Big!

I would really like to know why a virus (W32.Sobig.F@MM) I have been sent before on intermittent occassions has suddenly decided to send itself out every five minutes. What's changed in its instructions?

The good news is that if I collect another week or so of "spoofed" return addresses*, I'll have a huge mailing list I can sell to spammers, and annoy perfectly innocent computer users.

*The virus inside an infected computer looks through the e-mail lists inside that machine and attaches one as the "return" address. The victim never knows which machine it really came from.

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