Mydoom cripples US firm's website
Monday, 2 February 2004 15:15 EST
The Mydoom e-mail worm has paralysed the website of US software firm SCO, in a massive denial of service attack. The company - which owns a version of the Unix operating system - said the virus was "overwhelming the internet with requests to www.sco.com". Both SCO and Microsoft have offered $250,000 rewards each for help to catch the author of the worm - the fastest-spreading virus known so far.
A variant of the virus is expected to attack Microsoft's site from Tuesday.
The first version of the virus, Mydoom.A - also known as Novarg or Shimgapi - emerged last Monday in the form of a spam e-mail message that contained a well-disguised virus attachment.
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