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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. Just a bunch of horse crap... by mirko · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's just a skript kiddie who think he'll impress even more with such FUD...
    Reminds me of a spam which I got which content was : "get a capable emailer".
    Of course, had I had one, I'd have gotten some ad for penis enlargement pills...
    So, I just dumped the mail and as I am on OSX, I don't have vir[iuse]* either...

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  2. Re:Im suprized it took this long by Feanturi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Different for entities like MS, if I convert a person to Linux, that doesn't help MS...

    I'm not trying to troll here, but showing Linux to certain people *does* help MS. Linux still has a lot of work ahead of it before it's truly safe to expose various people to it. Do it now and a lot of them want to run away screaming.

  3. Three Words by Geak · · Score: 0, Troll

    GET A LIFE

  4. Re:Virus Facts by FireBook · · Score: 0, Troll

    >Hours to saturation/Dollar damage done by:

    >Klez 2.5 hours $9B
    >Sobig 10 hours $14B

    >2003 overall virus damage $89B

    These figures are absolute, total, complete, and utter BULLSHIT.
    Why is it that companies and people ever believe the crap about the 'cost' of virus infections that are invariably pulled out of thin air, and in most cases pulled out of said thin air by people being paid to do 'studies' by certain companies (the ones named in the post) with kinda vested interested in scare tactics.

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