Mydoom - Update

[muchspl2]

Originally posted by MagicNakor@2 February 2004 - 06:07
MyDoom's pretty cute. He doesn't evoke the terror of Doom that I thought he would.

Almost could be on a kid show.

ha yea its my AV on another forum



I like him

[SeK612]

I got a few of them in one of my email accounts. Its pretty easy to get infected if you don't know what your doing (I get loads of crap in that account so I usually just delete anything from anyone I don't know). The virus is supposed to die on Feb 14th.

Microsoft's guide for dealing with the virus: http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/mydoom.asp

[echidna]

The only annoyance i've suffered from this worm/virus is having to attend to AV dialog prompts for heaps of emails coming in with the virii attached.
Then today i got one with my address as the sender!
But i'd already cleaned my uninfected system with a full AV scan with the latest definitions!
I searched and found that mydoom has a sneaky trick
It spoofs both the to and from addresses with real and 'plausible' addresses,
see;
http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2004/01/...m_is_smart.html

I'm curious to learn of the effects this mass infection has wrought,
if as i have heard it is targeting M$ and $CO i don't particularly care if they and their shareholders suffer.
But all of the millions of ignorant hotmail dependents shouldn't have to needlessly suffer, and what of the little mentioned trojan/backdoor aspect?
Aside from the DDoS aspect the main horror that is being wrought is clogging up network connections with all of the emails that the thing sends, apart from the backdoor it reads like it is basically benign in a local system (it doesn't delete your C: drive or all files *.mp*)

Everone knows the myriad way in which M$ sux, but FYI $CO corperation is trying to charge a licence fee from linux users, and is pursuing lawsuits to that end.
see;
http://www.economist.com/business/displayS...tory_id=2020889
&
http://sco.com/scosource/linuxlicense.html
(sound familiar to any P2P advocates?)

Putting 2 & 2 together I recon that this worm/virus is some hideously geeky protest/sabotage, has anyone seen anything echoing such an analysis?
if so, is economic/political motivation any more defencible than 'ordinary' exploits?
would anyone mind if the RIAA and sharman etc. were such a target?
are these rhetorical questions?
&, has anyone else got an incoming infection from themself?

[atiVidia]

Originally posted by echidna@5 February 2004 - 03:38
Everone knows the myriad way in which M$ sux, but FYI $CO corperation is trying to charge a licence fee from linux users, and is pursuing lawsuits to that end.
see;
http://www.economist.com/business/displayS...tory_id=2020889
&
http://sco.com/scosource/linuxlicense.html
(sound familiar to any P2P advocates?)

Putting 2 & 2 together I recon that this worm/virus is some hideously geeky protest/sabotage, has anyone seen anything echoing such an analysis?
if so, is economic/political motivation any more defencible than 'ordinary' exploits?
would anyone mind if the RIAA and sharman etc. were such a target?
are these rhetorical questions?
&, has anyone else got an incoming infection from themself?

SCO is retarded... IBM.com/open

btw, yes, no, no, and yes!

[mogadishu]

well atleast the virus creater had an arguably noble purpose - to attack a company who apparently is fighitng open source.. I dont know the details, but atleast it has a purpose.. not just to fuck ppls pcs up.