August 15th, 2003, 04:22 PM
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Re: BLaster/Lovesan has a sibling now.
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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
This particular attack was aimed directly at MS, it looks for a folder that is only present on some MS systems and then goes to work. So the Authors had an axe to grind with MS.
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OTOH, Microsoft may just be the target of opportunity. Like the time someone asked the infamous bank robber Willie Sutton why he robbed banks - "Because that's where the money is." Why attack Microsoft? They're the OS on 90%+ of the world's computers. Who's going to write a worm to attack OS2/Warp nowadays?   |
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