I'm getting those pesky German E-mails at the rate of 10 an hour.

[Ganja Ninja]

When is this crap going to stop?

[democracyindanger]

1. niemals

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[shoelace414]

3. I assume it's...

sending out the german e-mails and sometimes viruesed e-mails.. since I'm scanning at my mail server and still get them.

[Kellanved]

5. yes

The worm has a huge "installed base". This is as it was initially spread as a faked email-notification about the Fifa World Cup.
As several millions of soccer fans were waiting for an email looking just like the worm's, it was able to infect more PCs than one would have reasonably expected.
Also many Spam filters were configured to let the WorldCup mails pass.

[Kellanved]

4. Never. It will get worse in 10 days.

It might get better, once the Spam filters are adjusted (strangely enough, it has far less inpact in Germany, where many filters were able to spot it instantly).


Here's more about it:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,356297,00.html

[sinkingfeeling]

6. The office holder next door to me discovered it when it hit our campus

and now he's famous...quoted in several news articles.

"We've gotten inundated with reports of small networks getting hammered," says Scott Fendley, an incident handler for the Internet Storm Center, a warning service that tracks online threats.

Bearing German-language subject lines that translate to phrases like "Multicultural = multicriminal", the messages point to racist German websites and news articles that could be used to support anti-immigrant views."

http://abc.net.au/science/news/tech/InnovationRepublish_1370009.htm