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It's Only Logical
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USA | I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. Looks like microsoft is the target of another WORM.  | |
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Brianv5
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Keyser, WV | Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. Where do you get MS from anywhere in that post?
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alien9999999
Your Head Looks Nice
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| Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. well, SCO is the private law firm by M$... looks like two heads in one stone...
not that I approve of worms, I got enough mail as it is. and not that it is necessary in any rate, the SCO group is unbelieved anyway...
they just take dollars from M$ and spend them on lawyers...
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|  Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty.
IMHO, SCO has always sucked, but until late (the lawsuits) they only made their customers unhappy, now they are trying real hard to make the whole world unhappy.
The only form of life lower than SCO is the scum that launches attacks on them by sending us all viruses. | |
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SuperJudge
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| Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. They haven't always been linked together as such. SCO had an anti-trust suit against Microsoft over DR-DOS some time ago. 
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alien9999999
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B-3000 | Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. so it appears that SCO has always been like that...
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SuperJudge
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clubs: | Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. Yeah, ever since SCO was bought out, and became SCO Group, they've been one of the more letigious groups for sure.
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DrTCP
Yours truly
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Round Rock, TX | The lawsuit was between Caldera and MS. SCO bought Caldera after the lawsuit was over. | |
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alien9999999
Your Head Looks Nice
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B-3000 | Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. and the lawyers with it... | |
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xl5
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| Let's get this straight... SCO (Santa Cruz Operation, now known as Tarantella) sold its UNIX business to Caldera International. SCO changed its name to Tarantella and Caldera changed its name to The SCO Group. The litigous SCO Group is in reality a reinvented Caldera International, a well known LINUX developer and distribution. | |
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alien9999999
Your Head Looks Nice
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B-3000 | Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. damn those caldera bastards... | |
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akristov
join:2001-01-31
Tampa, FL
clubs: | Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. MS did give SCO $1 billion dollars for licenses. I think most people believe it is really to undercut Linux claims to legitimacy. | |
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dddane
join:2002-01-10
Chicago, IL
| Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty.
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alien9999999
Your Head Looks Nice
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| Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. sorry, but the target is linux.
it's very easy; the virus does not do a good job, because it clobbers mail servers up too much and less DDoS.
most mail-servers are linux or unix, but not likely to be SCO or caldera. linux has nothing to gain from this, except bad publicity, so the target is linux (and open source).
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Sarick
It's Only Logical
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USA
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| Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. Then the target is wider than just MS, SCO or Linux.
Lets get this straight..
1. Microsoft OS is targeted for it's insecure setup.
2. In turn causes systems to be hijacked and flood the internet SCO with DDoS attacks.
3. Followed up by Linux servers and other E-mail servers getting slammed.
4. Ending with productivity etc etc etc..
Who's the real target. Everyone, but the GUN of the operation was MS..
So in order of targets
•1st SCO.. They are where the attack is sent.
•2nd Microsoft OS .. They are the opportunity and gun of the operation.
•3rd Email servers. Innocent bi-standards of the attack.
•4th Everyone else..
Ok remove Microsoft from this equation.
3 and 4 wouldn't exist.
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alien9999999
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B-3000 | Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. and 1 would not happen too... | |
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join:2002-08-01 | Microsoft isn't the target... learn to read. | |
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shans001
join:2000-08-13
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1 edit | Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. No but from the SARC link, MS is the bullet.
LOL MS is harboring Virus's of mass destruction (VMD). | |
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Sarick
It's Only Logical
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USA | I guess that's my problem I read to much. Do to my EXTERNAL reading I knew slightly more about the WORM than was listed in the article. | |
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Sarick
It's Only Logical
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USA
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| Re: I wonder if someone wants the MS bounty. As said by new.com.com
Antivirus companies were scrambling on Monday afternoon to learn more about the virus, which started spreading at about noon PST. The virus affects computers running Windows versions 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.
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Doctor Olds
I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.
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1970 442 W30
clubs: | Not MS, but The Santa Cruz Organization (SCO) at »www.sco.com/ | |
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| lucylew
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Tacoma, WA | LOL | |
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SRFireside
join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX
| Re: Poor poor SCO I suppose that's what happens when you start off as a prominent Linux OS provider and then decide to do a complete about face regarding open source and going to bed with the "enemy" (signing with Microsoft).
You would figure people would know better by now NOT to open attachments from strange email. | |
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DrTCP
Yours truly
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| said by SRFireside  :
I suppose that's what happens when you start off as a prominent Linux OS provider and then decide to do a complete about face regarding open source and going to bed with the "enemy" (signing with Microsoft).
You would figure people would know better by now NOT to open attachments from strange email.
SCO did SCO Unix may years before they even bought Unix rights. They became Linux provider after they bought Caldera. They did not start off as "prominent" to begin with. | |
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daniyel
join:2001-05-10
Tucson, AZ
| Agreed. SCO has really set off the internet fart of our present days.
I would not doubt if SCO made the virus, just to look like poor old innocent VICTIMS, who get their CODE stolen and are attacked constantly.
"Darl McBride says No free Lunch, No Free Linux"
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IronChefMoto
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Alpharetta, GA
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Well this is the first i've heard about the SCO link. Is it official yet that SCO has no friends at all?
Maybe the RIAA? Misery loves company?
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jose3030
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ParanoiaInc
join:2002-08-28
Tucker, GA | I love My Doom! I also hate SCO, as they are right up there with MPA and RIAA. | |
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technick
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Loganville, GA | yay!!! kill sco! Sorry.. I mean I hate virus, but any virus that targets the enemy isn't that bad, but still annoying.. | |
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Jason Levine
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USA
| Re: yay!!! kill sco! said by technick :
Sorry.. I mean I hate virus, but any virus that targets the enemy isn't that bad, but still annoying..
I dislike SCO's actions as well, but any virus that opens a backdoor and can download and execute files is just bad news. Actually, I consider any virus bad news no matter who it attacks. I don't want my PC to be taking part in a DDOS attack of any kind. It is possible to boo both the virus and SCO at the same time.
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hurleyp
join:2000-06-20
Ottawa, ON | Novarg I've received the Novarg variant of MyDoom three times in the past 12 hours. NAV caught them, along with something called "Trojan.Downloader.Inor". Here we go again | |
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join:2003-09-23 | Re: Novarg I got 3 of 'em in the past hour or so...2 in the last 5 minutes. NAV caught 'em all, but now I wanna go home at lunch and rescan my personal machines (which I just scanned yesterday). | |
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join:2003-09-23 | Re: Novarg Ooops...my bad. I've now received 8 copies in just over an hour.  | |
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Maxo
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clubs: | Bad effects? Does this negatively affect the victims computer in any way? | |
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RayW
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Layton, UT
clubs: | About 8 by now and I do not get these normally! I use webwasher to filter them out, so I do not even get them into my mail reader.
My Yahoo mail has none, hotmail surprisingly only had 1.
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@bc.ca | Meh, I'm not as worried about it as Blaster. This may have been a bad year for worms, but none of them were seriously damaging to the casual home user. | |
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reub2000
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join:2001-12-28
Evanston, IL | And I would want to remove this why? quote:
The specifics (including common headers) and removal instructions for MyDoom can be found over at SARC.
DDoS the corpartaion who wants to cage free software! | |
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syco_mix
join:2004-01-27
Dallas, TX | just one more reason i love my mac you guys all in a frenzy over this worm, lol, such an easy thing to avoid, dont run the target os on a targeted platform. long live apple and gratz on the big 20 my fine digital fruit | |
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reub2000
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Evanston, IL | Re: just one more reason i love my mac Yep, I'll remember a Mac when I'd like a prebuilt. I like building an x86 computer. And an easy way not to get this is not to open the stupid e-mail. And linux is 100x better than OSX, and isn't affected by this worm. | |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | Re: just one more reason i love my mac thats just stupid. | |
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join:2004-01-27
Dallas, TX
| Re: just one more reason i love my mac the only thing that is ever stupid is when people post one liner reply to a well thought out opinion, now if you were also posting an opinion you would show your self as a truely intelligent primate, but hey if they can teach chimps to fly a rocket then i guess anyone can learn to type. =) | |
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join:2004-01-27
Dallas, TX
| ahh aye, linux is the stuff, but who said i wasnt running it? true for the most part i do run OS X, but gopta love the happy little mandrake linux PPC build uhhh kinda old but i think it is 7.1 but hey thats what updates and patches are for hehe, and yes building a system does have it's merit, but thats like building your own car, why bother when you can just buy a BMW? | |
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fatmanskinny
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Wandering
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| Time to run a scan I didn't receive any strange e-mails today besides the usual spam. To help with this virus issue and spam, I have Mailwasher on my computer. It allows me to "preview" the e-mail on the server before actually downloading it to my computer. I can also bounce it back to the recipient and make it appear as if my e-mail account doesn't exist and auto-delete e-mails marked as spam. Pretty good software.
Just to be on the safe side, I made sure Norton is updated and have begun scanning my computer.
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nil
Java Geek
join:2000-11-27 | This worm is bad news It's doing dictionary attacks against domains it finds (dunno where) on the infected PC.
It's going to get worse.
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MY HEAD A SPLODE
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Manchester, NH
| Re: This worm is bad news said by nil :
It's doing dictionary attacks against domains it finds (dunno where) on the infected PC.
When I unpacked the worm and pulled text strings, I found a handful of names listed, maybe 50 or so, not enough to constitute an effective dictionary attack. I also found a list of domains or partial names that the worm *avoids* sending emails to.
Have you seen evidence (mailserver logs) that indicate that the worm is indeed doing dictionary attacks? I would think there would be a lot more bounces in that case. | |
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Java Geek
join:2000-11-27 | Re: This worm is bad news Over 10K hits on our server today. Every IP hits a lot of times.. Average of 50-100 hits per source IP.
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InfamousCow
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clubs: | Re: removal tool Is this a worm or a virus? Both are mentioned but they are different.
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MY HEAD A SPLODE
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Manchester, NH | Re: removal tool Technically, it's a worm. But a lot of folks use the term "virus" and "worm" interchangeably. Heck, even I'm guilty of this.  | |
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shans001
join:2000-08-13
Chesapeake, VA
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| Re: removal tool I feel that a worm is a virus. As in nature, a virus is a set of instructions encased in a protein shell. A virus in nature is not a living thing for it doesn't contain a cell. This term is appropriate for the computer world where a virus is a set of instructions in a file. A worm is a set of instructions so it is a virus. Just my $.02 worth  | |
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MY HEAD A SPLODE
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Manchester, NH
| Re: removal tool said by shans001 :
This term is appropriate for the computer world where a virus is a set of instructions in a file. A worm is a set of instructions so it is a virus. Just my $.02 worth
Well, notepad.exe is a set of instructions in a file. So is that a virus?
As you mentioned, a biological virus isn't a living thing; it has to infect a living cell in order to replicate and spread. A computer virus, if you go by the strict definition, also cannot run or spread by itself; it has to infect other programs/files in order to spread. Worms are stand-alone executables that spread by copying themselves across systems; they don't infect other executables (this is why anti-virus programs can't "clean" worm-infected files). | |
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FLECOM
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Miami, FL | Re: what if... the day that happens i will purosly infect every pc i can in every major business and university hehe
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fatmanskinny
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Wandering
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| I spoke too soon! Doh! I started receiving e-mails today through Yahoo Bulk Mail. I was planning to let one download to one of my 4 computers just to see what havoc it plays. Of course, it was going to be a computer that does not have any info on it, no e-mail setup and no software (besides Windows default install software).
For my POP3 e-mail, I have Mailasher to preview e-mail before I download onto computer. Sweet piece of software.
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Atlanta, GA | Looks like SCO.com is in fact fubarred What are people getting for the IP when they do a NSLookup? I got 216.250.128.12. | |
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