RE: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT

[Darragh Bailey <felix () compsoc nuigalway ie>]

Quoting "Eggers, Bill A [LTD]" <William.A.Eggers () mail sprint com>:

> Seeing as how SCO got shut down and Washington Mutual (I tried to get money
> from them today and couldn't, they indicated the MyDoom.B was the cause of
> their problems and several other banks), I'd say it was more than just a
> minor bother and a little less than hysterical. However, they do have some
> strong language in their alert. I'm just glad the government is putting some
> real resources behind the effort. 
>
> Bill Eggers
> Tech Support Manager
> SprintDSL

Just 1 minor quibble.

http://www.sco.com website didn't actually get taken down with the DoS. SCO 
removed the A records so that there is no dns record to use to target the 
website. So nice to see the worm foiled so easily. btw http://sco.com still 
works and points to their website, and all of there sub systems seem to be 
still up, so they effectively rendered the DoS null and void. All the mail 
traffic still being generated is a pain though.

-- 
Darragh

"Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"