SCO, the company at whom the MyDoom virus writers appear to have targeted as the main payload of their recently unleashed virus, have offered a $250,000 dollar reward to tempt anyone who knows anything about the virus creators to come forward.
SCO has been at loggerheads with the open source community for some time now, over allegations that Linux, a popular open source variant of Unix, uses copyrighted technology developed by SCO. It is therefore likely that the virus is being targeted at the SCO company in some form of retribution of SCO's claims.
The MyDoom virus, which was released on Monday, is spreading far more rapidly than last years big virus releases, SoBig and Blaster and is currently estimated to be infecting one in every twelve e-mails.
All the major virus companies have released updates to their software in order to combat the virus, but it is obviously up to the end user to update these definitions in order to stay protected.
The FBI are also taking this virus seriously and have started an investigation into the virus's origin, indications of which appear to be Russia.
Sophos have provided information and utilities on how to remove MyDoom from infected machines.
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