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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>]

What is hilarious to me is how the media is just using their stock 
virus/worm coverage. Its
mainly affecting people" not businesses and how its terrible and 
destructive and vicious, when its none of those. I mean, as bad as a 
DDoS is, thats *all* its doing, and its only doing it to SCO, its not a 
trojan or anything else (that we know of at this point)...

Damn news media...

~Ian


On Jan 28, 2004, at 9:00 AM, Thomas Beckett wrote:

> 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."
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