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MyDoom Seeks to Destroy Antivirus Firms

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-know-the-feeling dept.

Khoo writes "Worm writers are threatening to attack antivirus companies F-Secure, Symantec, Trend Micro and McAfee. In the latest version of MyDoom--MyDoom.AE--the authors embedded a message ridiculing rival worm Netsky and promising to attack the antivirus companies."

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  1. Re:virii calling each other out... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I pwned your mommy years ago. Who's your daddy?

  2. The Problem with Zombies by amigoro · · Score: -1, Redundant
    If certain people built their OSs more securely, then we wouldn't be having all these pesky viruses to begin with. The internet is not a safe place anymore because of all the compromised Zombie machines that could be exploited to carry out very large scale DDoS attacks. I am willing to be my last $ that 99.99% of them run the same operating system.

    So what's the solution? Simple. The people that sell Swiss-cheese OSs should try to get their act together and build more bullet proof systems. This will drastically cut down the number of zombie PCs.

    Your software ain't that great if a teenage script kiddie can commandeer it to bring down your own website.

    Thank you.

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