On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:33:47 PST, Stephen Samuel said: > Most of the time, I'd expect that a copycat virus is going to be > much smaller than the original, since that trick-space is now > going to be saturated.If there's nothing different in the > distribution of the virus, then I'd say they were silly to > presume it was going to be anywhere near as big as MyDoom A. In general, yes. However, in this case it was a copycat that got loose *before* the general population got the meme for "this is bad, don't click on it". And remember - they need to get a new meme for each specific instance, as the average user can't seem to generalize this. (Hmm.. didn't Stephenson's "Snow Crash" talk about that? ;)
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