New Worm Used As Weapon in Linux War

(CNN) -- A sneaky e-mail worm continued to clog Internet traffic Tuesday, spreading faster than previous Web bugs by appearing as an innocuous error message.

The worm -- dubbed "MyDoom," "Novarg" or "WORM_MIMAIL.R" -- was copying itself at a fierce pace, so fast that some companies were having to shut down their mail servers to stop it. And a new clue was emerging as to the source of the infection.

Virus experts suggested MyDoom's author was a fan of the Linux open source community, because the bug, which targets computers running Microsoft Windows, launched a Denial of Service Attack on SCO's site. Utah-based SCO Group, owner of the UNIX operating system, claims some versions of the Linux operating system use its proprietary code.

"The MyDoom worm takes the Linux Wars to a new intensity," said Chris Belthoff, an analyst for anti-virus firm Sophos. "It appears that the author of MyDoom may have taken the war of words from the courtrooms and Internet message boards to a new level by unleashing this worm which attacks SCO's Web site."

Full article: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/0 ... index.html


Seems like they're killing two birds with one stone with this one. It's attacking SCO and Windows users at the same time. All of our computers are infected with some sort of email worm. 'Tis a pain in the arse.

i do not want to have that on my computer.

don't help spread it. get ur antivirus software up to date.

I got two of the viruses in my hatemail for loser.before-reality.net

Fun stuff To bad I can open it and it can touch me! hahhh!

Here's SARC's take on it. (I saw that ealier today too)
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/ ... .a@mm.html

Ya, I was helping out the Cisco CCNA 1 class and all the computers on my school's network were infected. It was brutal

See, now they bring up this kind of paranoia EVERY time a new worm or virus comes out...

Ok, so this worm/virus/trojan/whatever doesn't infect Linux.. GO FIND ONE THAT DOES!. Your search will fail.

Besides, if this one was written by a Linux guy, it'd be GPL, and have SourceForge.net URL for source code download in the mail signature

working last night i got word of this virus at around 10PM last night... and i had a feeling it was going to be a bad one... had no idea the impact it would have though, or i would have warned everyone here.. i had 30 of this virii in my email by 5 pm tonight... sorry i didnt warn everyone earlier..

Brent

That's how youo tell something's a virus. If you've got like 15 microsoft patches in your inbox it's a bit suspicous

No way, send me two copes! Down with SCO!

I just got another two today at hatemail@acgcny.com four total now!

I've gotten like 150 since yesterday morning.

The emails are finally beginning to dwindle down for me. I only received three today, but at least 50 yesterday.


BTW Axe, congrats on becoming a Mod!

I haven't received a single copy. Does this mean that nobody has me in their address book? haha!

...well, I'm hoping our mail admins at work are doing a fine job.

BTW: How do you become things like mod? (Not that I'm asking to be... I'm not... just curious).

Have you heard of the Newfie* virus? It was written by a guy who couldn't program. It politely asks the user to forward the message to their entire address book, then delete their files.

* A Newfie is a person hailing from Newfoundland, Canada. Some take offence to the term... I happen to like it a lot.