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  • From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: Internetworkers <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Mydoom vs. SCO
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:00:20 -0500

The Mydoom virus is apparently set up to launch a DOS attack on SCO on Feb. 1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/technology/27CND-VIRU.html

"But security analysts believe the ultimate purpose of Mydoom is embodied in its instructions to infected computers to bombard the Web site of the SCO Group, of Lindon, Utah, which owns licensing rights to the Unix operating system, a competitor of Microsoft Windows.

Unless an infected computer is immediately cleaned of Mydoom, the worm will instruct the computer to connect to the SCO Group's Web site beginning Feb. 1. The cumulative effect of the worldwide barrage, which is intended to last until Feb. 12, could be to shut down that Web site. Computer experts also say that the mass-mailing planned for next month, known in the industry's parlance as a denial-of-service attack, could cause collateral damage to networks in which many computers were already infected and were trying to communicate with the SCO Web site.

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The SCO Group today offered a reward of up to $250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the people responsible for creating Mydoom.

The SCO Group's president and chief executive, Darl McBride, said Mydoom is the fourth attempted denial-of-service attack against the company in the 10 months, and provides a window into what he called "the darker side of the Linux community we've been fighting."




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