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SCO Offers Reward for Arrest and Conviction of Mydoom Virus Author
SCO press release ^
| January 27, 2004
| Darl McBride
Posted on 01/27/2004 1:10:08 PM PST by HAL9000
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I hope the perpetrator responsible for this attack is arrested and convicted,
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:10:09 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
a reward of up to a total of $250,000 Payable by 400 licenses for your Linux copy, no doubt.
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:13:33 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: HAL9000
This is what happens when you file a malicious lawsuit against IBM and the entire LINUX community.
This is wrong, but it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of creeps.
So9
To: HAL9000
If these virus-makers were given jail time concomitant with the economic damage that they cause, they would all get life. I'm all for that, unless we could give them the death penalty. Let them run an infected computer, and the first time the Blue Screen of Death shows up, drop the cyanide capsule.
To: HAL9000
Even if you got the worm it would be stopped by ZoneAlarm, or any competent firewall. It could try to attack SCO, but it wouldn't be allowed access to the internet.
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:17:29 PM PST
by
js1138
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
If these virus-makers were given jail time concomitant with the economic damage that they cause, they would all get lifeIn most cases, yes. In the present case, I'm not sure a DDOS attack on SCO would cause any economic damage, given that the company's only business plan seems to be to try to extract fraudulent license fees from Linux users.
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
If these virus-makers were given jail time concomitant with the economic damage that they cause, they would all get life. I'm all for that, unless we could give them the death penalty. What a strange world we live in. Taliban John gets only 20 years for taking up arms against his country, but kids who make a monkey out of a tech business should get the death penalty? Hmmmm.
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:19:45 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(I'm pro-choice. I just think the "choice" should be made *before* having sex.)
To: HAL9000
How interesting to hear from SCO that they are experiencing and are presumably the target of DDOS attacks.
Are we witness to a form of virtual anarchy???
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:21:28 PM PST
by
Pylot
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
"If these virus-makers were given jail time concomitant with the economic damage that they cause, they would all get life"
They haven't caused any economic harm by attacking SCO. Now, if they attacked the 50,000 lawyers that SCO is using to sue the entire world they might have caused some economic harm, albiet only to the lawyers.
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:22:42 PM PST
by
SirAllen
To: HAL9000
... and receives a very swift kick in the jewels.
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:31:08 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Boston: So much Liberty, you can buy a Politician already owned by someone else.)
To: Right Wing Professor
This virus also attacks
PC's.
To: Prime Choice
What a strange world we live in. Taliban John gets only 20 years for taking up arms against his country, but kids who make a monkey out of a tech business should get the death penalty? Hmmmm. I wasn't the judge who sentenced a traitor to 20 years. Were it my choice, he'd be a prime candidate for a necktie party.
As for making a monkey out of a tech busines:
a) This virus also attacks PC's. link.
b) Economic damage done by viruses is a bit more serious than that.
To: HAL9000
confirmed that it is experiencing a distributed Denial-of-Service attack But wait! The DDoS from MyDoom wasn't supposed to start until February 1st. How can they be experiencing it now?
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:39:23 PM PST
by
FourPeas
To: HAL9000
This calls for a Bwahahahaha.
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:40:31 PM PST
by
dr_who_2
To: Servant of the 9
It's happening to millions of innocent computer users.......so glad that makes you happy.
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:41:22 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: OldFriend
To: Robert_Paulson2
Thanks, my tech person assured me that PCCillin has protected against this.....further I have closed the preview window on the email and NEVER EVER open attachments.
Earthlink caught something in their spam protector that I have. It never made it to my desktop.
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:51:32 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Economic damage done by viruses is a bit more serious than that. Can't say I buy that claim. Take a look at any press on "losses" from viruses, trojans and worms. Then compare those figures with the quarterly and annual statements to stockholders of those businesses. Isn't it funny how those "losses" are mysteriously absent?
So one of two groups are being lied to: the public, or the SEC. Were I running a business and had to lie to one of them, it sure as heck wouldn't be the SEC...
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:51:33 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(I'm pro-choice. I just think the "choice" should be made *before* having sex.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I had my first experience with some outfit called
Spyware from Georgia that hijacked my computer and put porno and other things I did not want was this weekend. I had to take my computer to a service dealer that had to run a new program on it to rid me of this plague. If I could find the 'holes that did this I would deal them some pain. This is uncalled for and costs me money because of their greed.
I got this POS on my computer just because I wanted to download the lyrics of a song that I wished to play. If it cost me $25 here in Ms, there is no telling how much they cost some poor smuck that lives in areas of the country where the cost of living is high.
Johnny Walker needed a necktie along with Jane Fonda. I am just a routine computer user that doesn't spend 24/7 with a computer and have no idea to rid this of these uninvited intrusions.
To: OldFriend
My ISP runs all our E-mail through "Postini", which filters out all known viruses, and 99% of spam.
It seems to work perfectly. Once a week I get a list of quarantined E-mails to review, and they are almost always something I don'e want.
Why doesn't everybody use Postini?
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posted on
01/27/2004 2:06:06 PM PST
by
snopercod
(When the people are ready, a master will appear.)
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