New Worms Feed on MyDoom Infections

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday February 12, 2004 @08:16AM from the sucks-to-run-windows dept.

JJP writes "ZDNet Australia is reporting that two new worms, Doomjuice and Deadhat, are taking over computers previously infected by the MyDoom virus. Apparently they try to uninstall the MyDoom virus and then take over the PC to start their own malignant work. Whilst the threat these two worms pose shouldn't be too big, both needing a MyDoom backdoor, it is still a novel way to spread a virus. In the Netherlands there is a newspaper reporting this proves MyDoom was initialy spread by organised crime in a dark plot to wage cyber-war and steal confidential data from our computers."

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dark underworld crime lords by perz0n · 2004-02-12 08:36 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Well isnt it obvious the real crime lord here is Mr Bill Gates. Wasnt it his product that started the original backdoor allowing MyDoom to become part of a more millicious super virus?