PM8228 not actually the spammers but a group of black hats (looks like russians) that are spreading thier back doors using worms. they upload smtp engines then sell them to spammers. the original netsky gang was warring with the doom group by releasing netsky which killed the back doors and removed the reg entries for various worms put out by the 'doom' group. they were also making threat to each other in comments in the code of the worm itself. the original mydoom was aimmed to DoS sco's site but these cats could really care less about sco and corporate struggles. they steal identies and and hi-jack computers to be sold to spammers. DoSing the site was just a deversion. so i guess the answer would be yes i do think that. i just find it an interesting turn that the name netsky is being used for a 'mydoom gangs' type worm.