On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:37:57 +0100 Frans Ketelaars disseminated the following:
> > A new virus, as of today. Rated High-Outbreak by Mcafee: > > http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100 > >983 > > > > (Only affects Windows, of course.) Already picked up by everybody's fav Procmail recipe: http://agriroot.aua.gr/~nikant/nkvir/ See changelog. > I noticed this: > > <quote> > Denial of Service Payload > On the first system startup on February 1st or later, the worm changes > its behavior from mass mailing to initiating a denial of service attack > against the sco.com domain. This denial of service attack will stop on > the first system startup of February 12th or later, and thereafter the > worm's only behavior is to continue listening on TCP port 3127. > </quote> > > That's _not_ the right way to fight SCO IMHO. Agreed. It just contributes to the image which SCO is trying to paint of the Linux community, a bunch of 'hackers' (which of course, many are, but they don't get the diff between 'hacker' and 'cracker', CNN be praised). Fighting SCO, and MS for that matter, is done most effectively by getting the truth out there. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man."-- Declaration of the Rights of Man
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