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The latest prolific eMail virus, MyDoom, being called the fastest spreading eMail virus in history, infects an estimated 500,000 PC's worldwide, and has been clogging inboxes and raising havoc across the Internet. Until February 12th, every infected computer will be joining in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack upon the web site of SCO at www.sco.com, which is expected to be unavailable throughout this attack.
UPDATE
SCO has "done the right thing" (not that they really had any choice) by removing their "www.sco.com" domain from the Internet. It has been withdrawn from the Internet's domain name system (DNS) so that the hundreds of thousands of infected machines will no longer be able to determine the IP address of SCO in order to target their bandwidth connection attack.
THE MICROSOFT ATTACK
The next interesting thing to happen will begin Tuesday, February 3rd, when the second variety of MyDoom virus begins attacking "www.microsoft.com". The relative strength of this second attack is not clear, so it will be interesting to see how Microsoft's web site fares.
The latest prolific eMail virus, MyDoom, being called the fastest spreading eMail virus in history, infects an estimated 500,000 PC's worldwide, and has been clogging inboxes and raising havoc across the Internet. Until February 12th, every infected computer will be joining in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack upon the web site of SCO at www.sco.com, which is expected to be unavailable throughout this attack.
UPDATE
SCO has "done the right thing" (not that they really had any choice) by removing their "www.sco.com" domain from the Internet. It has been withdrawn from the Internet's domain name system (DNS) so that the hundreds of thousands of infected machines will no longer be able to determine the IP address of SCO in order to target their bandwidth connection attack.
THE MICROSOFT ATTACK
The next interesting thing to happen will begin Tuesday, February 3rd, when the second variety of MyDoom virus begins attacking "www.microsoft.com". The relative strength of this second attack is not clear, so it will be interesting to see how Microsoft's web site fares.