As Melissa and I watched our inboxes fill up yesterday with stupid "you're a virus-sending poopyhead" messages from clueless virus-scanning applications, we got to thinking "hmm, there's a contest in here." Yeah, we need to cut down on the caffeine consumption.
In any case, welcome to the official Network World Fusion 2003 Stupid Sobig competition. The rules are simple:
Send us, by 12:01 a.m. (EDT) Thursday, Aug. 28, the number of Sobig-related messages that have come into your mail account. Now, most people would say "that's stupid, why should I count stuff like that?" but we know that faithful Network World Fusion users just love tallying up stuff like that.
Send us, also by 12:01 a.m. (EDT) Thursday, Aug. 28, your best or worst Sobig-related story, anecdote or comment.
The winner in each category will get (you are sitting down, right?) a valuable round Fusion mousepad. Not available in any stores, these increasingly valuable collector's items will make you the envy of the cube farm (bonus: the awful rubber smell has almost entirely disappeared).
Mail your entries to me at agaffin@nww.com (please, do not put "That Movie" in the subject line). Naturally, Network World and IDG employees and their families are not eligible (besides, if they'd really wanted one of these mousepads, they would've swiped one from my office long ago).
Our company was completely unaffected by the Sobig strain of viruses. We use Merak Mail Server ( http://www.MerakMailServer.com ) which has an integrated Antivirus that is capable of scanning 2000+ messages per second.
In addition, it has what is called an "Active Update" service which ensures that our virus definitions are always up-to-the-minute, up-to-date by queueing our server to download the latest virus definitions the minute it a new definition is released.
Posted by: Chris G on August 21, 2003 08:44 PMPost a comment
