MyDoom Internet Worm
Why’s everyone upset about this cute little worm? Click on the image for the full popup illustration from Reuters.
Of course I’m talking about the MyDoom worm, and there are two variations running around now, labelled MyDoom.A and MyDoom.B. MyDoom.A started attacking SCO’s website on Sunday (Feb 1), and will automatically stop on Feb 12. SCO removed their www.sco.com name record instead of trying to withstand the traffic or reroute it. They probably want to blame the worm on the Linux community, and by taking their site down intentionally, they make it appear like the worm wiped them out.
MyDoom.B was supposed to start its distributed denial of service attack on Microsoft’s website today, yet the site is up.
According to Information Week, the worm contains a message from its author who identifies himself as “andy” and says, “I’m just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry.” So was the worm written for-hire by spammers?
February 4th, 2004 at 11:04 pm
Apple needs to capitalize on all of these Windows bugs.
“Buy a Mac and laugh at all your Windows friends!”
“OS X: As clean as the 1968 Superbowl Halftime show”
“Apple: We’ve got Steve Jobs and they don’t.”