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A day at the races
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our virtual racetrack! You will witness the greatest challenge in the history of the Internet. Mydoom.A.worm and Mydoom.B.worm. are already on their marks, but other contenders might still join the race.
We still remember the great contenders of past events. In the summer of 2001, RedCode, SirCam and Nimda engaged in an fantastic race to become the Most destructive malicious code. Not to mention the spectacular competition among Sobig, Nachi and the Blaster family.
It sounds strange, isn't it? But don't be surprised, this is actually many cyber-terrorists' everyday dream. Actually, they are probably celebrating the success of their malicious creations with all their colleagues at this very moment.
Regardless of many people's opinions, this simultaneous appearance of viruses is not a coincidence. Viruses do not appear spontaneously, they must be created and distributed by somebody, usually just to satisfy the ego of an irresponsible programmer. Therefore, a bit of competition is a plus.
We are witnessing wars of destruction with people fighting to become the new Attila of computers. If is it was the pride of the infamous King of the Huns that the grass never grew on the spot where his horse had trod, it is not surprising that the goal of this bunch of virus creators is to destabilize all the computers affected by their codes. In their minds, this is obviously a life's achievement, only comparable to the legacy left by Jack The Ripper's criminal deeds in Victorian times.
Going back to our virtual racetrack, there is no doubt that anyone broadcasting the race between the two Mydoom variants would be surprised at the tactics used by the worms. Not only do they try to spread in any possible way, but they trip the up the judges of the race, sabotaging antivirus programs. It' is like the gangsters in movies, shooting back from the cars at police officers while trying to escape.
But like those gangsters, who missed every shot, the creator of Mydoom.B.worm had the brilliant idea to prevent infected users from accessing certain web pages, including Microsoft's website http://www.microsoft.com. For God's sake, if you were trying to launch a distributed denial of service attack, how could you restrict the traffic they'll receive? This is probably the clumsiest denial of services attack ever, and you will definitely go down in history as the dumbest virus programmer in computer history.
In my opinion, I don't think these people should go down in history in any way. They wan to be famous, but they only deserve contempt. Maybe one day, they will realize that no monument has been erected to honour the AIDS virus, whereas the Red Cross is one of the most respected institutions in the world.
Fernando de la Cuadra
International Technical Editor
Panda Software (http://www.pandasoftware.com)
E-mail: Fdelacuadra@pandasoftware.com
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