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[Day Permalink] Tuesday, August 19, 2003

[Item Permalink]  -- Comment()
The Cost of Email Interruption: "The time it takes the average employee to recover from an email interrupt and to return to their work at the same work rate at which they left it, is on average 64 seconds." (PDF file)


[Item Permalink] An e-mail worm on the loose in Finland -- Comment()
I have received today a couple of dozen e-mail messages containing the following text:
  • See the attached file for details
There seems to be a .pif file included in some of the messages:
An attachment named 'movie0045.pif' was converted to 'possibly_dangerous_file_attachment' as it constituted a security hazard.
A colleague received over 400 messages in a short period of time.

Update: Apparently the e-mail messages are due to Sobig.F worm. The messages should be deleted at once if received.