SCO offers $250,000 reward for arrest of Mydoom worm author

[RJ5500]

'We have our suspicions' about what's behind the attack, said CEO Darl McBride

Story by Ken Mingis

JANUARY 27, 2004 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - The SCO Group Inc. said today it is experiencing a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack apparently related to the Mydoom worm that first appeared yesterday.

The company, which is embroiled in legal action against IBM over intellectual property rights related to its ownership of System V Unix code, said it is offering a reward of up to $250,000 "for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual or individuals responsible for creating the Mydoom virus."

In a statement released late today, the company said it has been the target of several such DDOS attacks during the past 10 months.

But the one now under way "is different and much more troubling, since it harms not just our company, but also damages the systems and productivity of a large number of other companies and organizations around the world," said SCO CEO Darl McBride in the statement. "The perpetrator of this virus is attacking SCO. ...

"We do not know the origins or reasons for this attack, although we have our suspicions," said McBride, who did not elaborate on what those suspicions are. "This is criminal activity and it must be stopped."

The company also said it is working with U.S. law enforcement authorities, including the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI, to try to determine who might be involved in the attack.

The Mydoom worm, also known as Novarg and Mimail.R, is a mass-mailing worm that arrives via e-mail as an attachment with one of several possible file extensions, including .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr or .zip. When a user opens the attachment, his computer becomes infected. The worm is apparently designed to attack the company's Web site, www.sco.com, beginning on Feb. 1.

Experts have said that the Mydoom worm is spreading faster than last year's Sobig.F, which topped the charts as the most widespread e-mail worm of 2003.

Both Network Associates Inc. and Symantec Corp. said that when the attached file is executed, the worm scans the user's system for e-mail addresses and forwards itself to those addresses. If the victim has a copy of the Kazaa file-sharing application installed, it will also drop several files in the shared-files folder in an attempt to spread that way.

According to Symantec, the worm also installs a "key logger" that can capture anything that is entered, including passwords and credit card numbers, and will start sending requests for data to SCO's Web site. If enough requests are sent, the SCO site could be forced off-line.

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[WE_DELIVER]

except for the key logger...I dont mind this virus

[The Hunter]

Some more info.http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114460,00.asp

[isus]

can sco even afford this?

i hope they are dos'd into the next century, with the bs they've thrown about linux... they couldn't produce a good distro, and now they are looking for money...

another example of sue-happy america.

[RJ5500]

Well, SCO is just evil for starting so much $hit over linux, but this type of virus really bites.

I'm glad I run linux.

[Kf7avenger]

hope Nobody reports Him If EVERYONE WOULD SWITCH 2 Linux THEIR WOULDNT B ANY Problem. the Internet SPEED would B faster and Those Programs should KEEP On doing Their Thing. CUZ Now a Dayz anything POSSIBLE WITH Stupidity People Will More than Likely WAKE UP and SWITCH 2 the other SIDE AND FUCK WINDOWS. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME U SAW A MOVIE THAT HAD WINDOWS INSTALLED They ALL HAVE Linux SLACK Ware, DEBIAN, and MACINTOSH MAYBE THOSE DAMN SHEEP WILL WAKE UP and say I ‘am SICK AND TIRED OF Wasting $60-$100 On STUPID ANTIVIRUS Software WHEN THEIRS FREE Anti-viruses or another O.S that Is Not vulnerable But Go Figure THATS Y Theirs a difference between u and I got Knowledge and U. WELL y EVEN BOTHER trying 2 Knock some sense Into u Idiots. FUCK THIS GO TO CHURCH SHEEP AND FOLLOW THE Crowd LIKE THE REST OF THE Neanderthals That Go 2 CHURCH. IM SICK AND TIRED Of Been around so many Neanderthals, IDIOTS, Pendejos, Debases, Idiotas, Air Headed, Mentally Challenged People, RETARTS, and JACK ASSES. It’s Not that I’m SMARt I don’t consider My self smart or Intellectually Superior ITS JUST THAT U ARE 2 FUCKING STUPID TO COMPREHEND ANYTHING I KNOW ITS NOT of u this only goes 2 those that are Stupid ALL THAT I SAYING IS THINK for You're self B WE CANT Leave People Lost In the Oblivion that their already in we Cant do that U might think it's Good But U haven’t Thought it through U Can’t Let sheep RUN the Planet That's what will call Ignorance if u Decide 2 b like the CHURCH Not Only do u Corrupt society But You GET FUCKED BY You're own system I don’t think I’m Getting My Point through People We Americans Think where Better Than Everyone else were not. You Go right ahead and make fun of the other countries when they are the ones making FUN off US. I don't even know why I bother I don’t feel Fulfilled in Life as if I’m the only intellect and the rest Who knows where the fuck their going 2 end up
I cant believe I’m placed in a room Full of what are suppose 2 B Intellectuals. People Call me rude. Maybe its Bcuz I don't lie when they ask me 4 my opinion. I tell it Like it is.

[baghdad_steve15]

People please dont judge us Linux users on that /\ post.

We are not jackasses.

[The Hunter]

So do I, and quit spamming Linux. If we wanted to use it we would.
Also you can consider this a warning Kf7avenger.

[Malicious Intent]

You're self

I usually let mistakes that I notice slip, after all, I'm far from perfect. But this.... well... never mind. I guess it sums up your post.
For that money I would hand them in.