New Worms Feed on MyDoom Infections

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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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Re:Get a PENCIL AND PAPER by Denver_80203 · 2004-02-12 08:17 · Score: 5, Funny

I hear those are safe too.. and just as useful to me in my busniess as a Mac.
Ooo! by HarveyBirdman · 2004-02-12 08:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Maybe Red Hat or Apple paid for the *virus*. :-)

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1. Re:Ooo! by UFNinja · 2004-02-12 08:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  No, if it was funded by Apple it would be called iDoom. ;)
2. Re:Ooo! by cetan · 2004-02-12 08:37 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  ...and you'd have Mac users paying $99 for the upgrade to iDoom 0.0.1
  
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Proof? by Srividya · 2004-02-12 08:19 · Score: 5, Funny

No proof yet... BBC says MyDoom spread by Linux users to hurt SCO, Linux users say MyDoom spread by spammers to hurt everyone, spammers say MyDoom spread by BIGGER PENIS NOW... Who to believe?
1. Re:Proof? by Landaras · 2004-02-12 08:55 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You mispelled 'B1GG3R P3NI5 N0W!!!1111'
  
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It proves one thing. . . by UFNinja · 2004-02-12 08:19 · Score: 4, Funny

this proofs MyDoom was initialy spread by organised crime. . .

I think it "proofs" that the editors don't proofread the submissions. :-P
In other news... by FortKnox · 2004-02-12 08:20 · Score: 4, Funny

In other news, by looking at the same day's news from the Netherlands, you'll see they just released "Deus Ex" and "Deus Ex: Invisible War." Conspiracy Theories have quadrupled since.

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Thread? by $-chavito-$ · 2004-02-12 08:20 · Score: 4, Funny

I hate it when those sneaky Windows worms pose as threads, it makes em that much harder to catch.
Is "DeadHat" a reference to .... by Kehl · 2004-02-12 08:21 · Score: 4, Funny

... the now defunct "RedHat" Linux distro?

Way to go on damming Linux users reputation :/
Virus names by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-12 08:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Do you think people come up with a clever virus name or the virus first?
1. Re:Virus names by DougWhite · 2004-02-12 08:24 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Isn't kinda like forming a Rock Band, you pick the name, and the image. The music comes to you after you sell your soul to the RIAA?
Re:Organized crime? by Trigun · 2004-02-12 08:22 · Score: 5, Funny

When are the nation states going to wake up and start an international war against spam?

When the spammers have oil.
Hmmm.... by fizban · 2004-02-12 08:46 · Score: 5, Funny

MyDoom: "Who are you?"

DoomJuice: "I'm your Grim Reaper."

MyDoom: "Like hell you are. This is my machine, punk."

DoomJuice: "Prepare to meet thy maker (wink wink)."

MyDoom: "Over my dead process."

DoomJuice: "Look, a little old lady on a Windows 98 machine!"

MyDoom: (turns) "Who? Where?"

DoomJuice: "Your Mom." *BONK* "Muhahahaha! Mine, the world is mine!"

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