worm, hungry. Not related to worm, mydoom.


Bad News:'MyDoom' Windows virus spreads rapidly; Good News: Macintosh unaffected :)

MyDoom PC 'virus' rebounds on Mac user:
[PC Pro] 13:12 Tuesday 27th January 2004
"Of course, the worm can only affect Windows machines, but because of the way it behaves Mac users may soon find their inboxes filling with emails returned as undeliverable from unrecognised addresses.
(...) According to security firm Sophos, the backdoor access has been designed to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack against SCO, a company that has made itself hugely unpopular in the Linux community by claiming it owns the rights to parts of the Linux code."
[Steve Malone and Simon Aughton]

Posted: Di - Januar 27, 2004 at 12:32 Uhr      


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