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MyDoom Brings Down SCO SiteMyDoom Brings Down SCO Site
SCO said the attack started late Saturday and overwhelmed its servers just after midnight, with hundreds of thousands of computers trying to gain access several times a minute.
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A computer virus that targeted a small Utah software company performed as its perpetrators promised on Sunday, bringing down The SCO Group's Web site two days before a similar virus was programmed to attack Microsoft Corp.
The "Mydoom" or "Novarg" virus launched the attack early Sunday with hundreds of thousands of requests, which crippled the site, SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said.
The virus was spread last week by e-mail and caused infected computers to launch the electronic attack against SCO, which has been targeted at least twice this year with such attacks because of its threats to sue users of the Linux operating system in an intellectual property dispute.
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