On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 06:39:41 GMT, Jeffrey D Angus
<jangus@socal.rr.com> wrote:

>Looks like Somebody is using names off of this group to propagate
>the latest virus.
>
>> MyDoom also appeared to launch a Denial of Service attack on
>> the site for SCO Group, a California company which recently
>> sued IBM, challenging that firm's intellectual property in
>> parts of Linux. SCO.com was inaccessible for some time Monday
>> afternoon.
>
>Jeff (the other other one)

Ok Jeff. Did you do it? Confessions graciously accepted.

Uptime stats on the SCO web servers:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph?site=www.sco.com

Apparently the starting "seed" email addresses for MyDoom were scraped
from comp.unix.sco.misc. That's what I get for using a real email
address. I've been vaporizing about 50 messages per hour on my
ancient mail server. However, most are not virus attachments.
They're warnings from various virus scanning firewall software
informing me that I'm sending out viruses. Several replace the virus
contents with various characters resulting in rather large and useless
messages.

It's kinda ironic that the virus scribbler would use a mess of
infected Windoze machines to attack a Unix company in defense of the
Linux horde. Perhaps it would have been more proper to have scribbled
a Linux virus with which to attack SCO.

The original Jeff(tm).

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