mydoom -> sco

Tom Wilson twilson
Mon May 17 11:59:01 PDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 00:00, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> >In a 0.4K blaze of typing glory, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I see MyDoom.A knocked out SCO's website. I'm really wondering if some 
> >>linux fanatic has gone a bit too far in his advocacy. Targetting 
> >>MyDoom.A for SCO and MyDoom.B for MS... you have to wonder.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I certainly hope not. My suspicion is that it isn't a Linux fanatic,
> >just some lugnut who likes to write worms.
> >
> >Kurt
> >  
> >
> 
> Hopefully, but the sco connection is troubling

It could be a convenient way to draw a connection to the linux community
instead of the real culprits.  

I imagine some spammers somewhere paying a hacker to right this and
saying "by the way, make it hit sco so everyone jumps the linux folks
about writing this worm."

$.02 deposit.

Tom Wilson 
McSwain Carpets 
513.354.4433 
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