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Miscellaneous => Intellectual Property & Law => Topic started by: Canadian Lover on 28 February 2004, 23:20

Title: MyDOOM got the riaa!
Post by: Canadian Lover on 28 February 2004, 23:20

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/02/28/outages_for_riaa_sco_sites.html (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/02/28/outages_for_riaa_sco_sites.html)
 

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The main Recording Industry Association of America web site www.riaa.com (http://www.riaa.com) has experienced intermittent outages since the spread of the MyDoom.F virus, which programs computers to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the site

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Title: MyDOOM got the riaa!
Post by: WMD on 29 February 2004, 01:04

pwnage! \o/  :D

Title: MyDOOM got the riaa!
Post by: mobrien_12 on 29 February 2004, 03:40

Great, now RIAA will follow SCO and blame "hackers" and "thieves" for attacking them.

The reality is that MyDoom is a spammer tool.  These DoS attacks are little things to distract us from the real intention of the virus writers.