Mydoom now worth $500,000
Here's a worm that turned ...
...into a cool $500,000.
That's what MyDoom is worth now Microsoft has offered another $250,000 to add to the $250,000 bounty already put up by SCO for the head of whoever authored the e-microbe, which targets SCO and Microsoft in its A and B variations.
Now the fastest spreading email e-worm in history, it has the commercial sector scrambling to protect itself before tomorrow when it's programmed to 'officially' launch its worldwide denial-of-service attack from every infected computer.
Mydoom has been nicknamed ScoBig, a play on Sobig.F which burrowed relentlessly through the Net last August.
Mydoom.B was at first thought to be more dangerous than the A version. But Finland's F-Secure says, "It's in the wild, but it's not spreading nearly as high as everybody expected."
