mydoom -> sco

[Alma J Wetzker]

Shawn L Johnston wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 08:38, Tom Wilson wrote:
> 
>>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."
>>
> 
> 
> I think there has been some speculation about that elsewhere as well.
> But what does a spammer gain from this? 

All of a sudden, linux users are the bad guys, and spammers get LOTS of 
spambots for free.  Poking the linux users in the eye is a good move for 
spammers since they are largely immune from most spam anyway.

     -- Alma