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- MyDoom--one year and counting
- MyDoom--one year and countingMyDoom--one year and countingMust be a slow news day to bring up a subject that happened over a year ago. WTG ZDNET! Or your just looking for page hits to get some revenue.
- Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2005-01-27
- Double MyDoom for Internet Explorer flaw
- Double MyDoom for Internet Explorer flawFirefox ...... nuff said.Hey Microsoft...Can You Hear The Footsteps??It's Firefox coming to kick your ass!!!Can't get these to work at homeI've gotten both of these as email attachments but I just can't get Firefox on Linux to load the darn thing. Keep trying to...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Moz, MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2004-11-09
- MyDoom seeks to destroy antivirus firms
- MyDoom seeks to destroy antivirus firmsYou know why they continue?They continue because well if they get caught they could end up with a job! People say that it is a way for them to atone for their crimes, well its more like your foot in the door of computer...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Reactive Approach, virus, antivirus, job, MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2004-10-18
- New MyDoom offers 'how to' details
- New MyDoom offers 'how to' detailsWe need INTERNATIONAL Law...Only then will these people be locked up as they should be.There should be an automatic 5 YEAR sentence for releasing a Virus, trojan or for installing SPYWARE on someone's computer.It is heart warmingthat the virus writers have now become more polite...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, UNIX, SECURITY, Operating systems, MyDoom virus, virus, Linux, New MyDoom, Unlike Linsux, BSD
- Discussion threads 2004-09-16
- MyDoom spawns four small offshoots
- MyDoom spawns four small offshootsThe question I have is thisIf PC's are up todate on their AV AND patches, is this really a threat to a large group of people?I am only asking because MyDoom has been around a while so by that you would figure that it should be...
- Tags: Operating systems, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, MyDoom virus, Linux, operating system, virus, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-09-10
- The Trojan resume: MyDoom authors encode job plea
- The Trojan resume: MyDoom authors encode job pleaOoops ...OK, that's not good, now every virus writer is going to be little ticked and try to prove that virus writers ARE geniuses ... I think I might just disconnect for a few months until this blows over ... way to go...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, virus, sidebar, talkback, job, MyDoom virus, trojan horse
- Discussion threads 2004-09-10
- MyDoom's defense attorney: "Your honor, we have an alibi."
- Anti-virus companies and security researchers may be jumping the gun when pinning the blame of a newly discovered exploit on an old worm. Case in point? A recent hack of Yahoo's People Search engine was originally blamed on a variant of MyDoom. However, MyDoom can breath easy because it was...
- Tags: MyDoom virus
- Blog posts 2004-08-06
- New MyDoom revives call to catch culprit
- New MyDoom revives call to catch culpritSo, they crud about that kid doing 70% of them..must have been a "weekly" statistic..
- Tags: New MyDoom, MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2004-08-05
- MyDoom opens door for attack on Microsoft
- MyDoom opens door for attack on MicrosoftHere's an option"It's a matter of how do we reach the people who own those PCs and let them know what's going on?" Weafer added. "It's not just MyDoom--they're wide open to anything attackers want to throw at them."How bout we take their PC's...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, MyDoom virus, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-07-27
- First MyDoom. Then Microsoft. No breaks for Google.
- MyDoom isn't the only problem that starts with an "M" that Google is dealing with this week. If you have Google's news site bookmarked, there's a new game in town: Microsoft. Given the meteoric success of companies like Google and Yahoo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that the company underestimated the business...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2004-07-27
- MyDoom variant slams mailboxes
- A pesky new variant of the MyDoom worm--dubbed MyDoom.m or MyDoom.o--was clogging e-mail accounts and crippling major Internet search engines Monday with messages posing as either a returned mail notice or an alert from an IT administrator. By Tuesday, the worm attack was starting to fade. MyDoom.m mainly arrives as...
- Tags: MyDoom virus
- Blog posts 2004-07-26
- MyDoom variant slams mailboxes
- MyDoom variant slams mailboxesHow many times do peoplehave to get burned before they learn to not play with fire?JUST GET IT OVER WITH AND CREATE THE UBER VIRUSJust create a virus that once and for all propagates and mutates whenever it thinks it's being scanned and do what you are...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., virus, MADNES, WWW, MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2004-07-26
- Visitors can't reach Google search
- Visitors can't reach Google searchMicrosoft sucks!Oh. Wait. Nevermind.Google sucks!Sporadic?Well. It happens everytime I try to do a search. The last I looked the word for that behavior was consistent. Not sporadic.GoogleI wonder if this sporadic error will cause any trouble with Googles initial IPO. I'm from Minnesota. I...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, Manufacturing, SECURITY, Network technology, outage, Google Inc., MyDoom virus, Microsoft Corp., Google Search
- Discussion threads 2004-07-26
- SCO recovers from MyDoom
- SCO recovers from MyDoomCowardly acts of open source DOS attacksIt is ashame that this community trys to put on a good image. When they are behind this chicanery.Wrong targetThe target of MyDoom isn't SCO, it's *you* (generic, not zdnet).There's a good chance that a chunk of the spam you got...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc., MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2004-03-08
- Latest MyDoom picking up pace
- Latest MyDoom picking up paceAnother day, another virusMS: What do you want to patch today?Have to get a crew together for the Monty Python PC Show. Patch, patch, spam and patches. Patches and spam. Spam, patches and patches...Wow....A denial of service attack on the RIAA???Geez... I'm tempted to...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Patches, virus, distributed denial of service, security, patch management, MyDoom virus, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2004-02-25
- RIAA to face MyDoom's music?
- RIAA to face MyDoom's music?*yawn**sigh*not as powerful as the original...http://www.thescogroup.com is still up and running fine.and who reads that web site?... just trying to figure out who this virus kid thought he was hurtinDoes the author/s....actually think that this is helping thier cause (whatever it may be?) all it is...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Cyberthreats, Digital media, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, digital-rights management, virus, RIAA, MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2004-02-20
- SCO waits for MyDoom attacks to end
- SCO waits for MyDoom attacks to endMyDoom dirtyI want the person s who did the MyDoom dirty-deed to be found. I have spent 12 days in computer-hell. Even tho over 7 doom virus scanners found NO infection on my computer, it continued to short-circut applications and Internet use.Also,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, MyDoom virus, computer, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-02-12
- MyDoom author may be covering tracks
- MyDoom author may be covering tracksUnfortunateIt's too bad that it takes hatred for Microsoft and/or SCO to bring out such imagination. Just think how much good such a person could do if those talents were put to beneficial use.Carl RapsonGender specific male pronoun okay?It seems that using gender-specific male pronouns...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Leadership, motivation, gender, virus, women, MyDoom author, MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2004-02-10
- New viruses feed on MyDoom infections
- New viruses feed on MyDoom infections50,000 or 75,000 machines?"There are only about 50,000 or 75,000 machines left that are infected".Where do these numbers come from? A quick tcpdump on my class C shows 10 different source IPs doing sequential scans for port 3127 in the past 5 minutes. ie 10...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Call centers, Cyberthreats, MyDoom virus, distributed denial of service, infection, computer
- Discussion threads 2004-02-09
- Week ahead: MyDoom end is nigh for SCO
- Week ahead: MyDoom end is nigh for SCOinitial claims? whatever..."Initial Claims is the weekly total of new claims filed for unemployment compensation. The total is expected to drop to 340,000 for the week ended Feb. 7, from 356,000 the previous week"-initial unemployment claim stats is a week indicator of the...
- Tags: Workforce management, Free trade, SCO Group Inc., administration, current administration, WMD, NAFTA, attack, MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2004-02-08
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