Like a city corner that has fallen victim to the graffiti tag signs of rival gangs, the Internet has now become the basis of a war of words and worms between virus writers, who are unleashing virus variants to eat one another’s work and spread to more computers. The exchange among virus writers and the release of several variants taking part in the battle — different versions of the Netsky, Bagle and Mydoom worms — does not involve particularly damaging or malicious code, but it is causing chaos, according to virus fighters.
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Virus Writers Battle in War of Worms
Posted by: Jay Lyman March 4, 2004 09:28 AMLike a city corner that has fallen victim to the graffiti tag signs of rival gangs, the Internet has now become the basis of a war of words and worms between virus writers, who are unleashing virus variants to eat one another’s work and spread to more computers. The exchange among virus writers and the release of several variants taking part in the battle — different versions of the Netsky, Bagle and Mydoom worms — does not involve particularly damaging or malicious code, but it is causing chaos, according to virus fighters.