Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 4, 2004 @07:34AM from the that-makes-sense dept.

cuzality writes "The media is now beginning to suggest that this recent onslaught of new viruses (with new versions of major-impact viruses being found daily) the result of a virus gang turf war, kinda like the India/Pakistan virus conflict, in which official Pakistani sites were savaged by such infamous groups as Indian Snakes and Indian Hackers Club. The gangs are shooting fast and loose: variations of the big ones are being discovered daily (as of March 4, we are up to MyDoom.H, Netsky.F, and Beagle.K), and in the space of three hours on Wednesday morning, five variants of these three were first discovered. Typically these viruses (or more correctly, worms) do little damage to the infected computer, intent mostly on spreading far and wide, and sometimes inflicting DoS on some poor evil empire."

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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-04 07:36 · Score: -1, Redundant

FP
oops by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-04 07:36 · Score: -1, Redundant

hehe
and the question is...? by blue_adept · 2004-03-04 07:36 · Score: -1, Redundant

what's the question?

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Re:How is this an "ask slashdot"? by WormholeFiend · 2004-03-04 07:41 · Score: -1, Redundant

The answer is 42.
Re:How is this an "ask slashdot"? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-04 07:51 · Score: -1, Redundant

1) Slashdot users don't RTFA
2) Slashdot moderators don't RTFA
3) ...
4) Slashdot effect!