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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

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.

. . . .
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."