Just another Microsoft worm [LWN.net]

Just another Microsoft worm

Posted Jan 29, 2004 10:17 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814)
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After much discussion on a mailing list discussing trojan horses, some people have reached the conclusion that MyDoom doesn't accomplish its stated goal of DDOSing SCO at all! Choice quote from the analysis: "I have the new critter in a test environment where we conducted a preliminary and rudimentary functionality and threat analysis...I have played with the date, etc, but still no activity directed toward www.sco.com." The link also includes disassembly and analysis of the worm code."
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Just another Microsoft worm

Posted Jan 30, 2004 20:08 UTC (Fri) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link]

Stop speculating, just see what happens Sunday am.

The code analysis I've seen states that 1 in 4 systems infected with MyDoom-A will start to DoS www.sco.com. That's enough to be _very_ disruptive but might explain why some people who have infected systems & advanced the clock have seen nothing happen.