I was reading a news group and someone commented that CNN was saying that SCO believes that My.Doom was written by Linux terrorists. So I wanted to find the article. In a google news search I found the following (Bold added by me):

A computer virus that began spreading swiftly across the Internet on Monday is coded to launch an attack on the SCO Group's Web servers Sunday, according to antivirus companies.

Computers infected with the "MyDoom" virus will begin to attempt to connect to the main page of the SCO website Feb. 1. The connection requests will come roughly every second from each of the estimated thousands of machines that are now infected, in an attempt to overload SCO's Web server and knock the company's site off the Internet.

On Tuesday morning, the MyDoom virus was present in one out of every 12 e-mails, according to e-mail security firm MessageLabs, surpassing the SoBig.F virus which, at its peak last summer, was found in one out of every 17 e-mails. SoBig currently tops many antivirus vendors' charts as the most active virus ever to hit the Internet.

But MyDoom soon may top SoBig. More than 1.2 million copies of the virus have been stopped by MessageLabs since it started circulating mid-Monday afternoon, and MessageLabs expects the virus will continue to spread at a furious rate Tuesday.

The denial-of-service attacks against SCO could continue until Feb. 12, when the virus is coded to stop spreading, according to antivirus vendors F-Secure and Symantec.

In March 2003, SCO claimed that its intellectual property had been illegally included in the Linux operating system. The company has since filed legal actions against IBM, Red Hat and Novell. The company also is demanding that corporate users of Linux pay SCO a licensing fee for the use of the open-source operating system.

"Arguments between SCO and the open-source community have been continuing for some months. It appears that the author of MyDoom may have taken the war of words from the courtrooms and Internet message boards to a new level by unleashing this worm which attacks SCO's website," said Chris Belthoff, senior security analyst for Sophos, an antivirus vendor.

"If we ever get our hands on MyDoom's creator our guess is that he will be an open source-sympathizer," Belthoff said.

But while some at geek discussion site Slashdot joked that MyDoom was "the first virus they would willingly load onto their computers," the vast majority condemned the virus writer, saying that SCO should be confronted in the courtroom, not through viruses and denial-of-service attacks.

"This is someone who just wants to feel important and who thinks that by DDoS'ing SCO everyone will call him a hero. Well, you stupid ignorant bastard, if you're reading this -- and you probably are since you expect that the Slashdot hordes will applaud your bravery in damaging thousands of people's computers -- no one admires you," one post on Slashdot read. "Anyone who wants to see SCO suffer for the wrongs they have done should unequivocally condemn such acts of terrorism. SCO will be broken by the weight of justice and right, not by mindless thugware."
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