On RTE Radio One's "Morning Ireland" show this morning, at about 0750, there was a piece about the MyDoom virus. They interviewed some 'expert' about this, and the expert said that in his opinion the virus was most likely written by some open-source supporters. He said a few other annoying things as well, but would it be appropriate for IFSO to write a quick email to RTE saying that while the expert is of course entitled to his opinion, 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.
RUSSIA was 80 per cent likely to be the origin of the Mydoom computer worm, which has become the worst ever internet epidemic, a top Russian anti-virus firm said today. [...] An expert from Kaspersky Labs, Alexander Gostiyev, told a press conference in Moscow the creators of the virus were not aiming to disrupt internet traffic but use infected computers to distribute unsolicited junk mail.
--- http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,8543890,00.html
RTE put up the individual pieces from Morning Ireland shows at
http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland.html
but this morning's isn't there yet.
Might be worth making sure the ifso.info website is back up before sending anything though. Also, should we have a "press@ifso.info" email address to send things like this out from?
Ben.