[Fsfe-ie] RTE Morning Ireland piece on MyDoom virus

Ben North ben at redfrontdoor.org
Mon Feb 2 10:13:40 CET 2004


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 at ifso.info" email
address to send things like this out from?

Ben.


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