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The worm has three notable payloads: (snipped 2)
The bit on Viagra seems a bit dubious - a Google news search for "Viagra" + "Mydoom" only brings up a couple of hits, and the analysis pages on Virus Encyclopedia and Symantec don't seem to mention it. Evercat 15:10, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I've never understood where the names of viruses and worms come from. Can anyone add etymology to this article? -- Spikey 02:37, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Useful references for anyone with a moment to do some revision:
- David Gerard 14:19, Jan 29, 2004 (UTC)
The letters on the end of a virus name (indicating a variation) are conventionally capitalised - hence "Mydoom.B". - David Gerard 22:55, Jan 29, 2004 (UTC)
Since 4 or 5 months ago I always have been flooded with "recepient not available" emails with .exes attached with them. In fact that is the only mail worm I have ever got, certainly at that high a volume. In fact I havent gotten any so far from this mydoom virus. What is the name of the older virus?
Do we actually have solid verification that the SCO-attacking payload has worked? I mean greater verification than SCO's site being offline, which doesn't verify a thing - remember that during the first "DOS", it was routinely up during business hours then off at night! Is there anything from their ISP, from standard routes to www.sco.com and so on? - David Gerard 18:04, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)
David: My reference for the downing of SCO's site came from mi2g, which stated: (1730, 31 Jan 04 news release) "As of 12:00 hours GMT, the SCO web site has been intermittently accessible only. Ping requests have been timing out as parts of the page have been taking over 10 minutes to download. As of 17:00 hours GMT the www.sco.com web site is refusing to download completely." I'm sure you're a better judge of the validity of such statements than I, so I'll gladly defer to you on these matters. - Seth Ilys 20:23, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I can't find a reference to the French-text version of Mydoom anywhere. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place... - Seth Ilys 20:25, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I just removed a link to a site, http://www.vyr.us/ , that claims to offer a download of the virus - you'll see it in the page history. Does anyone else think this is a good (as in encyclopaedic) idea? I'd think the technical analysis and disassembly would be quite enough myself ... (Mind you, I was amused that WINE is apparently sufficiently functional to run it ;-) - David Gerard 22:30, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)
" Whether or not the worm was written by a Linux user or advocate, it is important to note that it is next to impossible to infect a linux system directly, though there have been claims of running the worm under WINE."
The two halves of that sentence don't really go together; the first half adds no new information to the entry, and the second half doesn't really belong in this paragraph (origins of the virus). I wonder how worm-compatible WINE is in general ... I've heard of WINE being complete enough to run viruses and worms quite "well" some time before this, over a year ... - David Gerard 15:14, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)
If MyDoom leaves a back door that can be exploited by other viruses, does this mean that a Web site could have a simple script that tests users' computers to see if it is there? Has anyone made such a site? I can picture a little box the size of a "looks better with browser X" box that displays whether the user's computer is infected or not, to be placed on multiple sites as an amenity. Wnt ( talk) 00:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
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The worm has three notable payloads: (snipped 2)
The bit on Viagra seems a bit dubious - a Google news search for "Viagra" + "Mydoom" only brings up a couple of hits, and the analysis pages on Virus Encyclopedia and Symantec don't seem to mention it. Evercat 15:10, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I've never understood where the names of viruses and worms come from. Can anyone add etymology to this article? -- Spikey 02:37, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Useful references for anyone with a moment to do some revision:
- David Gerard 14:19, Jan 29, 2004 (UTC)
The letters on the end of a virus name (indicating a variation) are conventionally capitalised - hence "Mydoom.B". - David Gerard 22:55, Jan 29, 2004 (UTC)
Since 4 or 5 months ago I always have been flooded with "recepient not available" emails with .exes attached with them. In fact that is the only mail worm I have ever got, certainly at that high a volume. In fact I havent gotten any so far from this mydoom virus. What is the name of the older virus?
Do we actually have solid verification that the SCO-attacking payload has worked? I mean greater verification than SCO's site being offline, which doesn't verify a thing - remember that during the first "DOS", it was routinely up during business hours then off at night! Is there anything from their ISP, from standard routes to www.sco.com and so on? - David Gerard 18:04, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)
David: My reference for the downing of SCO's site came from mi2g, which stated: (1730, 31 Jan 04 news release) "As of 12:00 hours GMT, the SCO web site has been intermittently accessible only. Ping requests have been timing out as parts of the page have been taking over 10 minutes to download. As of 17:00 hours GMT the www.sco.com web site is refusing to download completely." I'm sure you're a better judge of the validity of such statements than I, so I'll gladly defer to you on these matters. - Seth Ilys 20:23, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I can't find a reference to the French-text version of Mydoom anywhere. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place... - Seth Ilys 20:25, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I just removed a link to a site, http://www.vyr.us/ , that claims to offer a download of the virus - you'll see it in the page history. Does anyone else think this is a good (as in encyclopaedic) idea? I'd think the technical analysis and disassembly would be quite enough myself ... (Mind you, I was amused that WINE is apparently sufficiently functional to run it ;-) - David Gerard 22:30, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)
" Whether or not the worm was written by a Linux user or advocate, it is important to note that it is next to impossible to infect a linux system directly, though there have been claims of running the worm under WINE."
The two halves of that sentence don't really go together; the first half adds no new information to the entry, and the second half doesn't really belong in this paragraph (origins of the virus). I wonder how worm-compatible WINE is in general ... I've heard of WINE being complete enough to run viruses and worms quite "well" some time before this, over a year ... - David Gerard 15:14, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)
If MyDoom leaves a back door that can be exploited by other viruses, does this mean that a Web site could have a simple script that tests users' computers to see if it is there? Has anyone made such a site? I can picture a little box the size of a "looks better with browser X" box that displays whether the user's computer is infected or not, to be placed on multiple sites as an amenity. Wnt ( talk) 00:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
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