[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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