The MyDoom.A worm, also known as "Novarg" virus released just a week ago, has
knocked down the SCO website. The virus was spread last week by e-mail and
caused infected computers to launch the electronic attack against SCO, which has
been targeted at least twice this year with such attacks because of its threats
to sue users of the Linux operating system in an intellectual property dispute.

Internet traffic to SCO's Web site began building late on Saturday night, and
overwhelmed it just after 12 a.m. EST (0500 GMT). "It's on the scale of hundreds
of thousands of computers, all trying to access www.sco.com all at the same
time, several times a minute," Stowell said. "Our capacity to be able to handle
that amount of bandwidth, or the number of requests coming in, was completely
saturated."

The attack is programmed to continue on SCO's Website until February 12,
according to messages left inside the virus' code. But Stowell said the company
would announce a contingency plan on Monday for customers to access the site. He
declined to discuss those plans, citing hackers.

On Tuesday, SCO had also announced a $250,000 bounty for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of Mydoom's creator.

Sources:
http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2004/104020201.asp
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9389318
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_556884,00030010.htm
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/02/02/biz_biz2sco.html


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Scientist C
Forest Genetics & Tree Biotechnology
Arid Forest Research Institute
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Jodhpur 342005 India
Phone: +91-291-2722269 ext. 162
Home Page: www.afri.res.in/FGTB/TK/tk.htm
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