MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO

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MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 27, 2004 @01:42AM from the now-thats-just-not-cool dept.

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.

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Infect me!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-27 01:45 · Score: 0, Troll

Oh please infect me! PLEASE!! INFECT ME!!!

I want to get infected.

Fuck SCO.
It is a sad day... by sadomikeyism · 2004-01-27 02:03 · Score: 0, Troll

when the difference between real human beings and pirates is so plainly illustrated, where real human beings take their opressors to court, and pirates initiate violent action against those they dislike.

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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves
Re:SCO probably wrote it by El · 2004-01-27 05:09 · Score: 0, Troll

Does SCO have any developers left capable of writing this? And how many Windows developers did they have to begin with? I find it strange that hotmail doesn't seem to be affected at all by this virus... could it be that their parent company had some advance knowledge?

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"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
I stand corrected by burnin1965 · 2004-01-27 05:50 · Score: 0, Troll

I haven't used Windows since NT4, so I stand corrected.

However, tell me this. When someone purchases a box from Dell, or picks up a shrink wrapped XP to install, do they end up with the same secure system as the one you would have put together or do they end up with an admin user?

burnin