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MyDOOM got the riaa!
« on: 28 February 2004, 23:20 »
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 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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MyDOOM got the riaa!
« Reply #1 on: 29 February 2004, 01:04 »
pwnage! \o/  :D
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MyDOOM got the riaa!
« Reply #2 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.
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