MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO 694
We mentioned the myDoom Worm just a few hours ago, but more information is available now, mainly that its ultimate goal is apparently to DDoS SCO. You can see some more detail at NetCraft. Obviously SCO has a lot of enemies out there right now, but it's always sad to watch someone stoop to this level.
SCO probably wrote it (Score:3, Insightful)
Nothing.
Re:SCO probably wrote it (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:SCO probably wrote it (Score:5, Insightful)
No, not all of us support actions like this against SCO. It does drag people down to their level acting like this, but in the end, frustration does that to people. Not everyone, but some.
SCO has now, for a full 12 months, made threat after threat, claim after claim, that they can't backup, but there's no way to stop them. People get frustrated by their continuous whining.
A fly buzzing around my head annoys me. Usually, I'll slap it and kill it. That's taking me down to far below its level, but it's satisfying. Given several hundred million people annoyed with SCO, I'm surprised more haven't acted this way towards them.
Re:SCO probably wrote it (Score:5, Interesting)
The attack on SCO is most likely just a diversion. A simple distraction from the actual goal... to turn millions of machines into zombies which can be used to conduct illegal activities (phishing scams), or can turned into email/spam relays to be sold to spammers.
It's already been established that Mydoom installs a backdoor and allows routing of tcp/ip connections to mask the identity of the originator. More or less exactly what scammers hoping to defraud ordinary people of banking details (phishing) need. Also the standard approach to turning machines into a valuable asset that can be sold to spammers in need of mail relays or "bulletproof hosting" for their websites that host the images all those spam messages reference.
Attacking SCO is a smart diversion.... especially if SCO takes the bait and publishes a flamebait press release (seems almost certain), which will of course provoke a response from the free software / open source communities. Lots of free press to help divert the anger of millions of (clueless) victims towards the very visible open source and free software people, and SCO, and away from the real criminals.
Judging from most of the comments here on Slashdot so far, it appears to be working perfectly.
Re:SCO probably wrote it (Score:5, Interesting)
Who else releases press releases deriding competitors or about lawsuits for a year straight, with NO press releases regarding actual real products?
Their goal is spreading FUD, and while they are the SCO group and are allowed to do so, they will keep doing it. If this court case with IBM, and the one with Novell, go on for another 3 years, all through that SCO will release statement after statement to the press speaking rubbish about Linux and threatening normal users. They won't stop until they are made to.
Since the law protects them and allows them to keep making these statements, the only thing that will stop them is something like a DDoS, and that's the situation we have.
Re:SCO probably wrote it (Score:3)
If you lose your company's source code, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
There's a minimum expected responsibility put forth by shareholders, and this would fall into that category.
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Re:SCO probably wrote it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SCO probably wrote it (Score:3, Funny)
But, damn it! (Score:3, Interesting)
We seriously need some sort of petition stating we do not support Linux or OSS, but not underhanded tactes like DDOSing and viruses.
Re:But, damn it! (Score:3, Interesting)
It's at http://petitiononline.com/dontddos
Re:But, damn it! (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd recommend that we on the side of Free Software study the anti-abortion tactics with dealing with such incidents. The first, and most obvious step, is one that was taken last time: immediate and honest sounding disavowel of the actions of the DOSer. Its going to get old for RMS, ESR, Linus, Perens, etc continuously getting out and saying the same thing ("We don't support this, its wrong. We're still right, but the virus writers aren't with us, etc, etc, etc"), but it needs to happen.
I honestly don't know what the other successfull tactics are. I need to study how the respectable majority in the anti-abortion movement deals with its nutbags. Can anyone think of other movements with similar problems that we should look into?
Re:But, damn it! (Score:3, Insightful)
The Palestinians, maybe? They're not all suicide bombers, but some people don't seem to make the distinction. The lesson there seems to be to stay the hell away from morally questionable leaders (like Arafat), because your whole community will be tarred with the same brush.
Opportunity knocking... (Score:5, Insightful)
I propose that the we work on a patch for this worm and get it out there ASAP, that way only tin foil hat wearing goofballs will believe we are behind this...
Nobody Touch Nothin' (Score:5, Insightful)
SCO has enough enemies to worry about, and they can point fingers all they want. They do not deserve an olive branch, they did not ask for one -- do not take the bait and proactively offer one. You will lose fingers.
-Hope
They do get something. They get spam relays. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:SCO probably wrote it (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:SCO probably wrote it (Score:3, Interesting)
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 spam
Re:SCO probably wrote it (Score:5, Funny)
Sir, it is obvious you have little to no understanding of the 1337 script kiddie culture. In exchange for a DDOS attack, the worm writers get something called mad pr0pz, which is a form of honor and integrity among those in the community.
Change domain (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Change domain (Score:3, Funny)
It may be wrong on some level... (Score:3, Funny)
Workers (Score:5, Interesting)
Is the source available on GPL? (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously, its is a shame, it will only fuel Darl's paranoia.
Something Doesn't Add Up (Score:5, Interesting)
I thought the worm was set to start the DDOS on February 1. So why is SCO showing a DDOS right now?
Was the February 1 thing made up? I've not yet received the virus in my email so I can't check the code for myself.
Or (I consider this more plausible) has SCO taken their own site down with the intention of blaming the "Linux terrorists", but they stupidly took it down 3 days too early.
Re:Something Doesn't Add Up (Score:5, Insightful)
Could be some PCs with badly set clocks. Well, you know those windows users, they don't set their system clocks, have 00:00 blinking on their VCRs, use outlook and click on every fscking single attachements that made it into their mailbox.
Re:Something Doesn't Add Up (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Something Doesn't Add Up (Score:4, Interesting)
Good god, man, don't complain when you've been that lucky. I got into the office this morning to find 550 unread messages, mostly copies of this, or messages saying that copies I had supposedly sent hadn't been delivered...
Re:Something Doesn't Add Up (Score:5, Insightful)
Preach on, brother. I wish some sysadmins would get a clue and realize that with viruses spoofing the From: address, there is no fscking point in sending the "you sent me a virus" panic mail. All it does is bother the wrong people.
Re:Something Doesn't Add Up (Score:5, Interesting)
I've been trying to complain to admins about this ever since Klez. You wouldn't believe the abuse I've gotten back -- and I've been very polite and nice. Generally, sites feel that it's adequate to add the newly found spoofing viruses to a don't-mail-notices blacklist after it's "realized" that yet another one can't be trusted. GET A CLUE, people -- you can't trust *viruses* at all.
The *real* problem is the antivirus software -- notices should only be sent for "known honest" viruses -- if at all. There should be *no* option to send these notices by default. But the antivirus companies *love* this -- they get to send out *millions* of advertisements for the effectiveness of their product, and no one is allowed to call it spam -- even though it *is*.
Re:Something Doesn't Add Up (Score:4, Informative)
Actually, there is... but in sending an email to others who know your email address. For example, I got 3 messages yesterday which contained this virus. Now, from what I understand, this worm pulls email addresses from one's computer, and sticks those addresses in the 'from' field. One of those emails I received was "from" the United States Air Force Band's Singing Sergeants Yahoo Group. That's pretty specific, so I sent everyone I know (who runs windows) a message saying, basically, that if you know of the Singing Sergeants, or these few other email addresses, then it's likely you have this worm.
Sending a "you gave me a virus" email to whomever is in the 'from' field is pretty useless, but the above tactic may prove helpful for this particular worm. At the very least, it lets other (possibly less-informed) folks know there's a worm about, and reminds them to practice good email usage (not opening unexpected attachments, etc.) and to update their anti-virus software.
Re:Something Doesn't Add Up (Score:3, Funny)
Due to the speed of the modern information infrastructure, and the method by which this virus distributes itself, a considerable number of copies will have crossed the international dateline several times during transmission. For these, it is indeed February 1st, and therefore these viruses are functioing correctly. Of course a similar number will have crossed in the other direction, so we can expect to see
Re:Something Doesn't Add Up (Score:3, Funny)
--Joe Sixpack.
Killing two ugly birds with one stone (Score:5, Funny)
1. The virus makes M$ operating systems look bad.
2. The DDoS attack goes after every Linux lover's most hated target, SCO.
But I do feel sorry for the people forced to used Windows by PHBs or who are novice users that don't know better than to run e-mailed executables.
Re:Killing two ugly birds with one stone (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't you get it? There are no weapons of mass destruction! It was all made up by Darl and his cronies!
Re:Killing two ugly birds with one stone (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually it's a mass mailer, so all it's doing is making user's look retarded. Again.
2. The DDoS attack goes after every Linux lover's most hated target, SCO.
Well yes, it does. But it ain't going to help our cause at all, is it?
Having said that, I'm going to get me some popcorn and settle down in front of Netcraft >: )
This stinks - easy PR for SCO (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: I don't think so (Score:3, Insightful)
In fact the case could be made that virus-writers are expert Winduhs developers...
ed (Score:5, Funny)
s/is/eir
Re:I don't get the joke... (Score:3, Informative)
Here is my attempt to render an explanation... (Score:3, Informative)
It is a regex [regular-expressions.info] statement. Essentially, the string typically instructs a language interpreter (PERL, for instance) to search for a pattern and subsequently replace it.
In this case, it is replacing any instances of "is" with "eir"; thus, the following alteration is committed:
Before: but it's always sad to watch someone stoop to this level
After: but it's always sad to watch someone stoop to their level
Damn those ignorant anti-virus idiots! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Damn those ignorant anti-virus idiots! (Score:4, Insightful)
I mean, what happens when user 'joe' gets a couple of "WARNING: You sent me a virus" in their email? They come running to me "just to make sure", and I will have to explain for them how the email protocol works... AGAIN... sigh... for, what is it, the 10:th time that day.
Here is a hint to people writing these crappy anti-virus/worm filter: make sure you **ONLY** send a bounce IF the detected virus is on A **WHITELIST** for viruses that always send themselves WITHOUT A FORGED SENDER ADDRESS. If you send *any* other bounces, you are a part of the problem -- not the solution...
Maybe, maybe not (Score:5, Interesting)
It's too early to call this one. Relax and pass the popcorn.
Re:Maybe, maybe not (Score:4, Insightful)
Info here [trendmicro.com].
It would seem that the real goal is to show how many people are stupid enough to still click on attachments when they have no idea what the fuck they are.
ummmm a good virus? (Score:3, Interesting)
I wonder if this DDOS is due to... (Score:5, Interesting)
Not so different from SETI? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not so different from SETI? (Score:4, Funny)
Conspiricy! (Score:3, Interesting)
I'll put my tin-foil hat on now I think.
Chris
According to Symantec... (Score:3, Informative)
I wish people would stop with the DoSing of SCO (Score:3, Insightful)
Mewyn Dy'ner
New tactics? (Score:5, Funny)
Seems like it's about time SCO came up with a new business model. Here's my suggestion:
FROM: Mr. Darl McBride
Santa Cruz Organisation
Lindon, Utah
Dear Sir:
I have been requested by the Santa Cruz Organisation to contact you for assistance in resolving a matter. The Santa Cruz Organisation has recently concluded a large number of dubious security trades. These pump-and-dump operations have immediately produced moneys equalling US$75,000,000. The Santa Cruz Organisation is desirous of setting up business in other parts of the world, however, because of certain regulations of the U.S. Government, it is unable to move these funds to another region.
Your assistance is requested as a non-U.S. citizen to assist the Santa Cruz Organisation in moving these funds out of the U.S. If the funds can be transferred to your name, in your Swedish account, then you can forward the funds as directed by the Santa Cruz Organisation. In exchange for your accomodating services, the Santa Cruz Organisation would agree to allow you to retain 10%, or US$7.5 million of this amount.
However, to be a legitimate transferee of these moneys according to U.S. law, you must hold at least one license for Santa Cruz Organisation Intellectual Property, which are available at a cost of US$699.
If it will be possible for you to assist us, we would be most grateful. We suggest that you meet with us in person in Lindon, and that during your visit I introduce you to the representatives of the Santa Cruz Organisation.
Please call me at your earliest convenience. Time is of the essence in this matter; very quickly the U.S. Government will realize that the Federal Reserve is maintaining this amount on deposit, and attempt to levy certain depository taxes on it.
Yours truly, etc.
Darl McBride
Funny, I think: (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Funny, I think: (Score:3, Funny)
Remember, SCO cant see the distinction!
Re:Funny, I think: (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sure they just gave themselves a license and wrote off the $699 on their taxes as a business expense ;)
This injures our reps, not SCO's (Score:5, Insightful)
We're right, and we know it. No self-respecting geek would stoop to participating in a DDOS in general, not to mention one against someone/something we consider to be morally bankrupt. We know that we can only claim the moral high road only if we actually stick to the high road... right?
It would be really interesting to find out if it's just some kids behind it, who aren't aware of the difference between right and wrong, or whether it's an entity who has a vested interest in making us look bad...
Transmission require OE? (Score:3, Interesting)
I'd like to know how worried I should be about Windows machines with Thunderbird installed.
This may be the last straw. I've been thinking about moving all 3-4 of my work machines (p200) to Beos with Fire/Thunderbird and Gobe Productive - I'm tired of the viruses, and I'm tired of maintaining Windows.
Re:Transmission require OE? (Score:5, Informative)
Microsoft probably wrote this (Score:3, Interesting)
Yeah, I know it's far fetched, and probably untrue, but some people need to grow up and realize that the only useful weapons against SCO are FACTS.
Either that or a big budget with which to purchase them... but their IP is so worthless, who would buy them?
The SCO Conspiracy (Score:3, Interesting)
Calm before the storm? (Score:5, Interesting)
The people who read these AV stories do not represent the "average" user who is more inclined to fall for the worm's social engineering. Nor would they be opening the "63 connections per second" to sco.com being touted by the AV vendors for that matter. I suspect that blip is going to pale into insignificance compared to the amount of traffic they are going to get come February. It's a fair bet that SCO will be denouncing the "Linux hackers" as being the culprits in numerous press releases as well, they may be right on that, they may not, but it's sure as hell going to get them a lot of sympathy.
This isn't going to help OSS's case at all, and the only saving grace is the February 12th cut off. Then again, I've yet to see anything about what happens to the port the worm listens on come the deactivation date, or what instructions that port might accept.
OK.. This is wrong on so many levels... (Score:5, Insightful)
But it's not DDOSing now. The attack is set to begin February 1st and end on the 12th.
The virus affects computers running Windows versions 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.... The virus also copies itself to the Kazaa download directory on PCs, on which the file-sharing program is loaded.
I'm thinking, wow, whoever wrote this covered all the bases. He/She even got the Kazaa people.
Anyway, why don't ISPs, just for the time being, ban connections to SCO.com? It's not like it's a huge Internet portal or anything, and us geeks who actually need access to the site can just set up a mirror or something.
DDoS (Score:4, Informative)
Please tell me... (Score:3, Interesting)
Please tell me I'm missing a whole load; most of the strings found in the binary are readable after de-UPX [sourceforge.net]-ing, then ROT13ing. About half are ROT13d, half aren't.
Ah well, I'm probably totally wrong, but it just sounds odd.
Open Source illegal? But Apache's okay, I guess. (Score:3, Interesting)
This is not one of SCO's enemies... (Score:5, Interesting)
This is someone who just wants to feel important and who thinks that by DDoS'ing SCO everyone will call him a hero.
Well, you stupid ignorant bastard, if you're reading this, and you probably are since you expect that the Slashdot hordes will applaud your bravery in damaging thousands of people's computers, NO ONE ADMIRES YOU. We spit on you, you're the bastard offspring of a lemming and a hamster and your mother had a beard!
With enemies like this SCO hardly needs friends. Anyone who wants to see SCO suffer for the wrongs they have done should unequivocally condemn such acts of terrorism. SCO will be broken by the weight of justice and right, not by mindless thugware.
Re:This is not one of SCO's enemies... (Score:5, Insightful)
Or someone who doesn't give a damn about SCO, and merely wants to distract attention away from their real goal of turning millions of end-user PCs into zombies to do their future bidding.
Hmmm... who would be interested in that <cough> spammers <cough> and has an established history of it?
Re:This is not one of SCO's enemies... (Score:3, Funny)
Some time ago I had a hope that Microsoft will be broken by the weight of justice and right plus weight of users' dissatisfaction...
So sad (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, it makes me very sad. Can someone hand me a hanky? I think I need some alone time to cry about this.
well-deserved (Score:4, Interesting)
Do the deserve it? Yes.
Have they been asking for it? Absolutely.
SCO aren't only the bully, they are the bully who has the rules on his side. "The system" is pretty guilty of aiding and supporting their dirty tricks. So it was only a matter of time until someone stepped outside the rules to get even.
Actually, I'm surprised it's just a small DDoS. I'd have more expected that their LAN gets wasted.
I saw it here in someones sig (Score:4, Interesting)
As much as I think that the SCO leeches are slimy forked tongue greedy selfish two-faced hypocrit lying b@stards, I have to say that those folks who are purposefully attacking them are only helping their cause and hurting the perception of the open source community.
Let them kill themselves. The industry is aligned against them, and you can bet they will castrate them before its over.
Hey Bill (Score:4, Interesting)
Now, I recall, the other day Bill Gates wowed to kill spam and worms, and now this? Looks like he has his work cut out for him there....
This has gotta be the Nth time I've seen reports that a worm has put an executable file into an area of the system that really should have been off-limits to anything not really needing to go there. So what does an E-mail program have to do of meaningful work in the OS code directories? Beats me...
I can offer a hint to Mr. Gates: Rework Windows so that it not only does not require Administrator rights to operate normally, but actually disallows certain operations when being Administrator as well. Such as running browser or e-mail programs.
Make sure no ordinary users can run processes that can write anything at all into the areas not set aside for that user, and the common temporary files area. I suspect there has to be some redesign, but I cannot see how this nonsense can be stopped otherwise.
Attack from the Inside (Score:4, Interesting)
Expect more associations between digital terrorism and Linux (as a catch-all media term for "free software"). The greatest threats to any revolution are:
I strongly suggest people become more familiar with how government and industry have undermined and perverted various revolutions. Start with COINTELPRO [icdc.com], an FBI campaign of the 1960s and 70s. And then read a bit of the history of the Homestead strike [pbs.org].
From undermining the right to vote (via electronic "voting") to lying about WMDs in Iraq -- do you honestly think such people will ignore the threat posed by free software to the lucrative commercial software industry? SCO's assault on free software may only be the tip of an iceberg...
Mad (Score:5, Insightful)
And I don't even use any Microsoft products.
When is somebody going to file a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for continuing to fail to address the security holes in Windows? I mean, it's been thirteen years since Michelangelo, and still all it takes for a virus to rape Windows is for a user to double-click on an email attachment.
You guys are amazing... (Score:5, Insightful)
I do agree with those who are suspicious of the motives - I think the SCO attack is just a front to increase the spread. Some morons will undoubtedly put intentionally infected machines out there, which will be more effective as Spammer relays than as drones to attack SCO. Anyone intentionally letting a machine become infected should have the book thrown at them. It amazes me how stupid very intelligent people can be sometimes.
Lets SCO claim it was "Linux hackers" (Score:5, Insightful)
If SCO is attacked they should pursue this with the appropriate authorities. I hope the perpetrator is caught, brought to justice and fairly punished.
The OSS community should be completely unambigous about this matter, illegal means have never been supported or encouraged in order to promote the aims of OSS, not only because it is immoral but also completely unnecessary and childish.
I am appalled that the response of many around here is "SCO deserves it". No dear slashbots, nobody deserves that their resources are abussed in this manner, not even SCO. I am behind them in any action they wish to pursue against the perpetrators, but equally I hope (perhaps in vain) that they will not do false claims without the knowledge of whom and why did this.
I am also peeved that people here are not unambigious about the condemnation of this DOS attack. This is not only illegal and immoral but also counter productive and it would be nice to see complete and unambigous condemnation of these tactics.
Do you want to show OSS tactics and aims are reasonable and beneficial? A wonderfule way would be for true hackers organizing themselves and try to identify, shame and denounce the perpetrators of this (or any other) charade.
Only because people have remained silent and unwilling to help the Internet, bit by bit, little by litte, is being taken away from us, but alas, we have not protected it as it deserves.
Get your facts straight... (Score:5, Informative)
The graphs that are linked to in the /. story simply illustrate that SCO's shxt keeps on crashing - which is not really suprising after Darl had to fire the network admin to feed his Lawyer habit.
Not the intended effect (Score:5, Funny)
Besides SCO doesn't need the internet as they hardly can expect to have any real customers left.
Nowdays their business model is based purely on litegation. To my knowledge lawsuits are delivered by hand, so a DDoS would not disturb their business at all.
I'll miss those SCO press releases.. (Score:3, Funny)
Build a Better DDOS (Score:3, Interesting)
Perfect... (Score:5, Interesting)
"Fair enough, a new virus, I gotta go to work."
Flash forward 7 hours to now and I can't *believe* what a great opportunity this virus has afforded me and no doubt countless others reading.
The mailbox it was delivered to was a spamtrap, chances are spamtraps all over the world are being sent the real, legitimate IP addresses of spammers dumb enough to click malicious attachments.
Viruses are bad, DoSing SCO is bad, but god damn, all this time we've been bitching and moaning about viruses when we could have been using them on spamtrap addresses to track down spammers to their *own* internet connection.
Meanwhile, for Postfix admins... (Score:5, Informative)
I just created and installed a Postfix remedy for this recent deluge, and thought I'd pass it on.
In main.cf, insert this:
body_checks=pcre:/etc/postfix/virus_body_checks
Create a file virus_body_checks containing this:
/^UEsDBAoAAAAAA...OzDKJx\+eAFgAAABYAA/ REJECT Attached zip file appears to contain a virus.
If anyone has an improved solution, let me know, but this seems to work.
Re:I never thought I'd say this... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I never thought I'd say this... (Score:4, Interesting)
I witnessed it on the first visit!
Really though, I wanted to see if they might have added a news piece on their site regarding what was already known to be a pending attack.
I mean..they had to know right? Surely someone warned them, or does really -no one- like them. I think that's pretty likely.
And being that McBride is pushing on with the lawsuits, I would say it's safe to say that he doesn't bother reading the news...
Heard in the halls of SCO (Score:5, Funny)
[Bob] Yup. It's getting just plain impossible to dump this stock [macobserver.com] anymore. What do we do? We got hammered on that 'dog ate our homework' line on our court filing last week. What do you think David? You guys did a bang up job making it look like Gore won Florida when there was no way a recount would ever show that. Hell, half the country still believes that 'selected, not elected' crap.
[Boies] Well I always say, play offense, not defense. We need to get the public back on our side. Control the spin. You know, make us out to be the victim again. It plays into these schmucks capability for pity.
[Darl] I got it! What if we were being attacked by evil hackers again? (laughs)
[Boies] Bingo. What can your geeks whip up quick, Darl?
[Darl] Well they sure ain't coding operating systems and their time spent looking for code violations in Linux has been a big waste. Maybe we could put them on making some sort of johnson or trojan or something that attacks our Internet connection. Bench, you think that'd help our numbers?
[Bob] Might. What'da say Dave?
[Boies] Hell, it'd be perfect! I'd bet it'd not only turn the PR our way, but I could put that half-assed son of Hatch's to business suing Internet service providers for causing our business damage. And if we totally bomb in court with this asshole judge, we'll just claim the whole company imploded cause of the Internet hacks and sue the pants off of every provider.
[Darl] Love it! Hey, let's call it some prophetic name like SCO doom or our doom like those bozos at the church are always yacking about end of world crap. Should get them riled up too. And hey, it might just be true for SCO! To the bank, buddies!
Re:I never thought I'd say this... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I never thought I'd say this... (Score:5, Funny)
Aw geez, you guys shouldn't have!
W00t ! I did it ! (Score:5, Funny)
Server Error
The following error occurred:
[code=SERVER_RESPONSE_RESET] The server response could not be read because of an error. Contact your system administrator.
Please contact the administrator.
Woo-hoo ! I DoSed the SCO server with only one finger !
Re:W00t ! I did it ! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:I never thought I'd say this... (Score:3, Funny)
Reminds me of a joke... (Score:4, Funny)
Now, with a proper sed'ing
Re:I never thought I'd say this... (Score:3, Funny)
Quick, disable your AV software, and get some Windows boxes on the internet!
You know, this reminds me of one time when an apartment building in our neighborhood was burning. Sure, you felt sorry to see it burn, and you felt sorry to see the people who lived there get hurt, but man, it's really fun to watch a building burn!
Really, there was one guy in the group who came out in a lawn chair
It has a hidden payload, you FOOLS (Score:3, Informative)
W32/MyDoom-A also drops a file named shimgapi.dll, which is a backdoor program loaded by the worm. The backdoor allows outsiders to connect to TCP port 3127 on your computer.
Pirates? (Score:5, Funny)
Real Human Beings (Score:3, Funny)
Thief (targeting a pistol): Money, quickly!
Real Human Being (With a disarming smile): Mr Thief, Would you like to visit a court with me in order to resolve our conflict? I just happen to have some megabucks to spend for our litigation!
Re:I never thought I'd say this... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Please, stop it with the "holier than thou"... (Score:5, Insightful)
They deserve to have their claims refuted in a court of law, and hopefully they will have to pay damages, court costs, and issue full and public apologies, before going bankrupt. If it can be proved that they deliberately lied in these claims, they also deserve criminal charges brought against them.
Vigilanteeism, however, is just malice operating under false pretenses.
Welcome to my foes list.
Re:Please, stop it with the "holier than thou"... (Score:3, Insightful)
I see we meet again...
How do they "deserve" this, exactly? This is a mass-mailing worm propogating through unprotected (as in, the people aren't updating their defs and opening the attachments) machines and opening backdoors that could easily be used later as spam relays.
On top of that, how many machines are going to simulatneously rear to life on the 1st and begin transmitting data requests back and forth between www.sco.com and all the different boxes? What effect will that have on the rest of us? Whi
Re:Why virii never DDoS AV companies? (Score:4, Interesting)
Why would the virus writers DDoS their own web sites? No, I don't find it to be an amazing coincidence that the very people supposedly fighting viruses also employ the people most knowledgeable about creating them. It's their job to know everything about viruses and it's their company's business to sell antivirus software. I was less suspicious back when McAfee used to give out free shareware versions, but when everyone went to charging a subscription fee yearly for updates it kind of became obvious that antivirus companies are behind most, if not all viruses in existence today.