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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

There is a variant of the myDoom virus that was released today which has
caused both the onslaught of emails and the slow down of the search engines.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=4&u=/nm/20040
726/tc_nm/tech_internet_dc

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mydoom.m AT mm.html

In addition to looking in your address book and internet cache for
addresses, this one also harvests the search engines for email addresses and
it is what shutdown google and several other search engines today.

        From Sarc:
        Queries the following search engines to harvest additional email
addresses for possible distribution: 
        search.lycos.com 
        search.yahoo.com 
        www.altavista.com 
        www.google.com

Given that, it might be prudent to consider the pluses and minuses of
adjusting the web archive of our list to insert some anti-spam addition to
email addresses. 


Additional information on it...read up at Sarc but here at the subjects to
look out for:

Subject: (One of the following)

say helo to my litl friend 
click me baby, one more time 
hello 
error 
status 
test 
report 
delivery failed 
Message could not be delivered 
Mail System Error - Returned Mail 
Delivery reports about your e-mail 
Returned mail: see transcript for details 
Returned mail: Data format error