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Post #139,652
by inthane-chan
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2/3/04 7:54:16 PM
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New Red herring.
The SCO attack, I'm certain, is there just to distract from the real purpose of the virus, which is to backdoor XP computers for spammers.

No hard proof, but it feels that way to me.
"I'll stop calling this crew 'Orwellian' when they stop using 1984 as an operations manual." - J. Bradford DeLong
Post #139,657
by Silverlock
2/3/04 8:50:35 PM
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New That seems a good guess
I think another reason we haven't seen a destructive worm yet is it would impede the further dissemination of worms.

Joe wormwriter thinks to himself- "I could make this devastating and bring down multiple thousands of systems. But how could I tell If I'm the best unless I leave a 'clean' field for others to show their wormwriting skills on?" That or how much money is expected from the spammer-patrons.
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     This may be the end of US as we know it - (Arkadiy) - (21) - Feb. 1, 2004, 10:39:40 AM EST
         start eating more curry and wear lots of cheap cologne - (boxley) - Feb. 1, 2004, 11:14:26 AM EST
         As the business goes global - (orion) - (3) - Feb. 2, 2004, 10:19:13 AM EST
             Ouroboros. This snake dines on his own tail. CIEIO-material -NT - (Ashton) - (2) - Feb. 2, 2004, 07:04:20 PM EST
                 It started some time ago - (orion) - (1) - Feb. 2, 2004, 11:55:03 PM EST
                     I meant: your teeechur's mindset; eating his own. ie Creepo -NT - (Ashton) - Feb. 3, 2004, 05:07:04 PM EST
         Re: This may be the end of US as we know it - (dmarker) - (14) - Feb. 3, 2004, 04:41:08 PM EST
             Re: added UPDATED comments - (dmarker) - (13) - Feb. 3, 2004, 04:39:37 PM EST
                 Something missing from the parallel - (Silverlock) - (3) - Feb. 3, 2004, 04:49:43 PM EST
                     Was thinking of this today - the new saboteurs are already - (dmarker) - (2) - Feb. 3, 2004, 07:18:55 PM EST
                         Red herring. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Feb. 3, 2004, 07:54:16 PM EST
                             That seems a good guess - (Silverlock) - Feb. 3, 2004, 08:50:35 PM EST
                 Yeah, right - (Arkadiy) - (8) - Feb. 3, 2004, 06:45:35 PM EST
                     I fear you may be missing a serious shift that is occuring - (dmarker) - (7) - Feb. 3, 2004, 07:09:17 PM EST
                         Trained people spend weeks producing buggy unusable code - (Arkadiy) - (5) - Feb. 3, 2004, 08:51:57 PM EST
                             One of us hasn't been to China :-) - (dmarker) - (4) - Feb. 3, 2004, 11:50:11 PM EST
                                 I do agree that real programmers happen everywhere. - (Arkadiy) - (3) - Feb. 4, 2004, 09:49:21 AM EST
                                     ICLRPD for the programmers among us (new thread) - (FuManChu) - Feb. 4, 2004, 06:13:56 PM EST
                                     Re: managed to be there when IBM started up, also India - (dmarker) - (1) - Feb. 4, 2004, 07:26:48 PM EST
                                         I think we're in agreement here - (Arkadiy) - Feb. 5, 2004, 08:38:03 AM EST
                         ICLRPD (new thread) - (Silverlock) - Feb. 3, 2004, 08:52:49 PM EST
         Cringely's take on the subject. - (Another Scott) - Feb. 3, 2004, 11:16:46 AM EST

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