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Relentless Replicants

Command Line Heroes

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My Doom - The Mydoom Worm

Mydoom was a virus that spread at lightning speed. At its peak in late january, two thousand four security experts were catching four point five million copies every day. It would harvest email addresses from the local system and it pray on the social engineering aspects. The worm also gathered an army of computers controlled by a hacker who used that army to launch a denial of service attack against the soffware giant, s c o.

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