Symantec's website says this:


There is a 25% chance that the worm will perform a Denial of Service (DoS) on February 1, 2004 starting at 16:09:18 UTC, which is also the same as 08:09:18 PST, based on the machine's local system date/time. If the worm does start the DoS attack, it will not mass-mail itself. It also has a trigger date to stop spreading/DoS-attacking on February 12, 2004. While the worm will stop on February 12, 2004, the backdoor component will continue to function after this date.
I wonder what laws of probability they used? LOL.

All jokes aside, this is very very serious, despite how the Gnu/Linux community or anyone else for that matter feels about SCO or Microsoft.

Again, as I always say, "the bad guys" (the worm launchers) have made it so that the good guys will probaly lose some type of right or priviliege, and also gives the government room to step in and pass legislatioin on certain things. I don't know what those things are, but I bet SCO is going to go full steam ahead to make sure nothing like this happens again. I bet SCO's IT department, vendors and consultants are painstakingly moving thier website over to a site with no DNS entry, allowing only present customers access to it. All this does is set the tone for another variant to target the new ip address. I am very very curious to learn how SCO is handling this and how Microsoft is planning to handle it. Does anyone know?