Microsoft Survives MyDoom Hurdle

[Mntsnow]

Microsoft Corp. appeared to have survived the worst the MyDoom worm could throw at it Tuesday.

Experts say the virus, a variant of the MyDoom.A virus that knocked out another company's Web site Sunday, was programmed to fire continuous volleys of debilitating data at Microsoft's site Tuesday.

But there was no visible impact on the software giant's Web site, www.microsoft.com, which barely flickered as the MyDoom.B Internet worm's trigger time of 8:09 EST passed.

Read more (http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/03/technology/microsoft_mydoom.reut/index.htm)

[davidw]

Something is definately fishy about all this. Not just about MS either.

[Siliconjunkie]

Whats fishey? They were just better prepared that SCO.

[davidw]

I was referring to the attacks in itself. Concentrating one attack on SCO and the second attack on MS, what is their motivation? Who is next? What do these two have in common that would warrant an attack on them?

[Siliconjunkie]

My guess would be that at the moment they are the 2 most hated entities in the computer industry. Oddly enough by the same camp....