According to the article, someone tried to coax MyDoom into action but was unable to: "I have played with the date, etc, but still no activity directed toward www.sco.com" It'll be interesting to see if it really will DDoS SCO February 1st or if it's a red herring. If Darl thinks he's being attacked by giant worms right now, perhaps it's just a drug reaction?
Outsourcing isn't the magic arrow CEOs want it to be.
No, but massive FUD about it works pretty good. Programmers won't accept lower wages, don't like those 80 hour weeks? Play a little sitar music over the PA. That'll shake them up!
Depends. You can bet a lot of people are watching for the first spam sent by the proxy function of MyDoom. (Although spam-proxy trojans are nothing new.)
I doubt that SPEWS will be too quick to list ISPs with infected boxes right now. This is a new virus and it takes time to react. Later if ISPs do nothing about spam-spitting infected boxes, perhaps... (IANS)
Yes, exactly. And after a few days of a misdirection attack on SCO, it could replace itself with a downloaded MyDoom Mk II and do who-knows-what. It's worth noting that most of the anti-spam targets that can be DDoSed have already been DDoSed.
Don't forget about the proxy/backdoor that this installs:
The virus installs a Windows program that opens up a "back door" in the system, allowing an attacker to upload additional programs onto the compromised device. The back door also enables an intruder to route his connection through the infected computer to hide the source of an attack.
Why would SCO include a backdoor? And why would the people attcking SCO include a backdoor? Worms like Gibe.x have used multi-loaders and have been connected with spammers, but this is better work than they've done so far. We don't know everything of what this worm does, it'll be much longer until we know why it does it, and even longer until we know who did it. The clues point in too many directions right now. Round up the usual suspects!
It's still unclear what the real goal of this worm is. While it does DDoS SCO, it also installs a proxy that can be used by spammers. Long after sco.com is smoking rubble, this will probably be relaying Make P3n1s Fast! spam.
It's too early to call this one. Relax and pass the popcorn.
32,768 bytes when uncompressed. It's good* even for VC++. Using even the smallest library class or function usually pulls the rest of the camel into the tent. It includes a trojan proxy, several methods of self-transmitting, maybe an MTA, no doubt other little tricks. This is no script-kiddie effort.
* good in terms of technical programming. It's still a sucky stupid wrong thing to do that's going to cause havok for months.
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ALL: God save your majesty!
CADE: I thank you, good people: there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers and worship me their lord.
DICK: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
CADE: Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings: but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since. How now! who's there?
Modern? The Pacer managed to take all the ugly of a mega-barge 70's station-wagon and compress it down to a sub-compact. The bubble-car look isn't exactly modern.
I did happen to RTFA. I think the problem is you're mistaking the patent info I quoted as a Case patent when it's actually the Goldberg one.
Yes, I never read your link first. D'OH! Perhaps it's like any message pointing out a spelling mistake must have at least one spelling mistake? Yeah, that's the ticket!
Makeup with a top 10 list? Oh, Rogue!:^) I personally know of multiplayer timesharing games from 1975 or so with high score lists. The patent language for a communications network is vague enough that these should qualify.
You did read the article, didn't you? That "prior art" is from the same people who are suing.
We represent Mr. Sheldon Goldberg with respect to the above-identified patents, collectively referred to as "the Goldberg Patents." It has come to our attention that starchamber.net, an Internet-based service provided by Nayantara Studios, infringes the Goldberg Patents.
I could find prior art for ranking players on games over communications networks from the mid-to-late seventies.
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Plus every conspiracy kook gets their 15 minutes. (And not just on Slashdot.)
According to the article, someone tried to coax MyDoom into action but was unable to: "I have played with the date, etc, but still no activity directed toward www.sco.com" It'll be interesting to see if it really will DDoS SCO February 1st or if it's a red herring. If Darl thinks he's being attacked by giant worms right now, perhaps it's just a drug reaction?
Have they found Chaucer's matching EULA yet?
The glasses don't have to look that geeky.
Have a heart, they're probably all sharing Cmdr Taco's (56kbps) pipe.
You forgot the "Who should we root for? NS/Veraslime or two (other) sleezy lawyers?" threads.
They did, but their results deviated so much from the norm expected that they were hesitant to release their results. :^P
I don't think I'll bother going through the PDF to see how they avoided introducing bias in their subject selection process and testing.
No, but massive FUD about it works pretty good. Programmers won't accept lower wages, don't like those 80 hour weeks? Play a little sitar music over the PA. That'll shake them up!
I was disappointed that this movie had nothing to do with Gary Larson.
I doubt that SPEWS will be too quick to list ISPs with infected boxes right now. This is a new virus and it takes time to react. Later if ISPs do nothing about spam-spitting infected boxes, perhaps... (IANS)
Yes, exactly. And after a few days of a misdirection attack on SCO, it could replace itself with a downloaded MyDoom Mk II and do who-knows-what. It's worth noting that most of the anti-spam targets that can be DDoSed have already been DDoSed.
It's too early to call this one. Relax and pass the popcorn.
* good in terms of technical programming. It's still a sucky stupid wrong thing to do that's going to cause havok for months.
Let's wait until we find out if it has teams. What good is a distributed project without scoring and teams? (Or did someone patent that? :^)
The executable is way too small (22,528 bytes compressed vs. 150k+ for most of the usual trash by spammers). I certainly doubt it was written in VB.
Modern? The Pacer managed to take all the ugly of a mega-barge 70's station-wagon and compress it down to a sub-compact. The bubble-car look isn't exactly modern.
Yes, I never read your link first. D'OH! Perhaps it's like any message pointing out a spelling mistake must have at least one spelling mistake? Yeah, that's the ticket!
Best of all, if he acts fast he might be able to swipe a better domain in a week or so:
Makeup with a top 10 list? Oh, Rogue! :^) I personally know of multiplayer timesharing games from 1975 or so with high score lists. The patent language for a communications network is vague enough that these should qualify.
No, they added the magic phrase "on the Internet" which makes it new, innovative and lemony-fresh! "Goldberg patents" is right, what a bunch of Rubes!
I don't have a webpage and I incorporated as 4172671 Canada Inc. I am so screwed!