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Microsoft Offers Bounty For Mydoom Author (TechWeb)
TechWeb
reports that Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for the
arrest of the Mydoom author. The negative Linux press is
included, of course.
"While not proven, SCO may be the target of such attacks because of its legal
challenge of the open-source operating system Linux, which the company claims
contains its copyrighted code. SCO's lawsuits have angered the Linux
community and its supporters."
SCO has also put a bounty of the same amount on the virus writer's head. (Log in to post comments)
Microsoft Offers Bounty For Mydoom Author (TechWeb) Posted Jan 30, 2004 18:27 UTC (Fri) by parimi (subscriber, #5773) [Link] M$ should probably spend the money on hiring a team of experts who can fix their flawed operating system.
Microsoft Offers Bounty For Mydoom Author (TechWeb) Posted Jan 30, 2004 20:29 UTC (Fri) by vondo (guest, #256) [Link] That would be a team of one, or at most two.
Microsoft Offers Bounty For Mydoom Author (TechWeb) Posted Jan 30, 2004 20:56 UTC (Fri) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link] Well, shoot, that should be good enough.I've formatted hard drives with Windows on them and installed Debian all by myself, and I didn't even get paid for it. -Rob
Microsoft Offers Bounty For Mydoom Author (TechWeb) Posted Jan 30, 2004 22:56 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] You mean like this:dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd[x] bs=16m ...then go for coffee and, when you come back, voila! OS problem gone!
But what should be fixed? Posted Jan 31, 2004 3:28 UTC (Sat) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] What do you think Microsoft should fix to prevent viruses? I think their options are limited because they cannot remove existing functionality their users depend on.
But what should be fixed? Posted Jan 31, 2004 4:59 UTC (Sat) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] You mean, like that piece of code in Media Player that executes any arbitrary code you want, so their marketing-minded friends can send you obnoxious music along with synchronized web pages?...or maybe by now, they've caved and taken it out? Haven't gotten too many e-mails forwarded from my users where Media Player pops up out of nowhere lately......
But what should be fixed? Posted Jan 31, 2004 23:26 UTC (Sat) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link] "remove existing functionality their users depend on"Yeah, the functionality that enables the users to go around the OS and the functionality that automatically executes any macros found in any files, regardless of the file extension? Not to mention, that there should be something really wrong there, if the only way to fix bugs is to remove features... ...but who knows, may be I'm the one, who is mistaken here.
Microsoft Offers Bounty For Mydoom Author (TechWeb) Posted Feb 2, 2004 15:34 UTC (Mon) by Destructo (guest, #17736) [Link] So if I fess up will I get $250,000 ? I assume the $250,000 was the loot they were going to give SCO .
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