Virus Writing: Not Fun, Not Funny

There was an amusingly understated headline on one of Jupitermedia's sites last week. It read: MyDoom Testing Your Patience? Why, yes it is. It is indeed. In fact, all of the Internet's various cyber-nuisances -- virus writers, hackers, spammers -- are testing the patience of virtually anyone who depends on networking and Internet technology, from Fortune 500 CIOs to grandparents on dial-up who merely want to download pictures of their grandkids, not some 14-year-old scriptkiddie's idea of a kewl practical joke.

I say "virtually anyone" because some Linux diehards think it's a hoot that the MyDoom virus on Sunday shut down the Web site of SCO Group with what is being called the biggest Denial of Service attack ever. SCO, of course, is the devil incarnate to the Linux community because it is aggressively alleging copyright ownership of crucial pieces of the open-source operating system.

Read Full Story