Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct

tsu doh nimh writes "Several news sources are reporting that the tens of thousands of Microsoft Windows systems infected with the Mydoom worm and being used in an ongoing denial of service attack against US and S. Korean government Web sites will likely have their hard drives wiped of data come Friday. From The Washington Post's Security Fix blog, the malware is 'designed to download a payload from a set of Web servers. Included in that payload is a Trojan horse program that overwrites the data on the hard drive with a message that reads "memory of the independence day," followed by as many "u" characters as it takes to write over every sector of every physical drive attached to the compromised system.' ChannelNews Asia carries similar information."

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To think

[ZeroSerenity]

A Microsoft patch/tool made...I dunno, four+ years ago could have prevented all of this? You know, if people bothered to install it? Much like...Conflicker(? is this right?) the patch is readily availble before the damage really gets underway or done.

Security is not hard people...

Re:Really that bad of a thing?

[icebike]

So an imaginary event that hasn't happened reminded you of DOS?

Do get a grip.

Please.

Re:first post..

[Hatta]

You sound a lot like this guy.