'Mydoom' Virus Brings Down SCO Web Site

Logla · Feb 2, 2004, 08:15 PM

"A computer virus that targeted a small Utah software company performed as its perpetrators promised on Sunday, bringing down The SCO Group's Web site two days before a similar virus was programmed to attack Microsoft Corp.

The "Mydoom" or "Novarg" virus launched the attack early Sunday with hundreds of thousands of requests, which crippled the site, SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said.

The virus was spread last week by e-mail and caused infected computers to launch the electronic attack against SCO, which has been targeted at least twice this year with such attacks because of its threats to sue users of the Linux (news - web sites) operating system in an intellectual property dispute."

Source: Yahoo!

Feb 2, 2004, 08:15 PM	#1
Logla HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,311 Rep Power: 0	'Mydoom' Virus Brings Down SCO Web Site "A computer virus that targeted a small Utah software company performed as its perpetrators promised on Sunday, bringing down The SCO Group's Web site two days before a similar virus was programmed to attack Microsoft Corp. The "Mydoom" or "Novarg" virus launched the attack early Sunday with hundreds of thousands of requests, which crippled the site, SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said. The virus was spread last week by e-mail and caused infected computers to launch the electronic attack against SCO, which has been targeted at least twice this year with such attacks because of its threats to sue users of the Linux (news - web sites) operating system in an intellectual property dispute." Source: Yahoo!