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MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO
We mentioned the myDoom Worm just a few hours ago, but more information is available now, mainly that its ultimate goal is apparently to DDoS SCO. You can see some more detail at NetCraft. Obviously SCO has a lot of enemies out there right now, but it's always sad to watch someone stoop to this level.
This is actually very sad. I only hope that the virus author is not a Linux advocate, as that would make Linux users look very bad. After all, if you're a PHB and someone tells you that "That MS Windows is the cause of all this, let's switch to Linux!", He'll think that "What? To that hacker operating system? NO! Our business will get bad publicity with each DDoS on SCO and maybe our own people get accused for those!"
- 4r0g
> Seems like this is Linux's ultimate weapon of mass destruction because:
> 1. The virus makes M$ operating systems look bad.
Wrong - MS gets hit by so many viruses that this does nothing more to damage MS's poor security reputation. [Taking a sledge hammer to a car after it's been totaled in a wreck really doesn't devalue it any more.] (Not to mention, this relies more on a user impulse flaw more than a Microsoft flaw--"please run this program" - "OK, I don't know what it does but why the heck not".) > 2. The DDoS attack goes after every Linux lover's most hated target, SCO.
Attacking SCO in this manor only hurts Linux. It leads people to think of Linux supporters as evil(TM) hackers out to destroy. The public at large will tend to associate Linux users with the viruses that have infected their system or caused them damage.
MS & SCO can hang themselves well enough on their own. Just let Darl keep on talking. And just let MS shove licensing agreements down our throats.