Quoting adam beecher lists@beecher.net:
[Ben North wrote:]
[...] other sources of information point more at a Russian criminal origin, aiming to use the machines to send spam. The SCO/Microsoft DOS in this case would be a decoy.
I find this theory just as unlikely as the "linux fan" hypothesis, probably something thought up by the media whores in mi2g and swallowed whole by the media luvvies that adore them. Seriously, if you were a "russian criminal" (Senator McCarthy would be proud) and you contracted some hacker to create a worm for you for this purpose, would you feel you were getting your money's worth if the hacker built in a DDoS tool that announced the worm to the world? It defies logic.
Well, possibly, if it did distract attention from the real purpose of the worm. But you're right; this is all heavily speculative. Maybe it's not worth making a fuss about.
Ben.