Domain Sabotage - Worm ruins windowsupdate.com domain

[basscaster]

To prevent further damage, a massive website is trashed for good.

Read news story at ZDNet, "Microsoft kills Net address to foil worm"

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5064433.html

 

[GeorgeK]

Next time, virus writers will likely just target microsoft.com itself (or other high-profile sites, such as eBay.com, Amazon.com, etc.). Not sure folding up was the best strategy....

 

[Nexus]

This is just horrible. If Microsoft feels it can't sufficiently wipe the "muck" off of its domain name, God help us all if someone releases a virus that decides to "nuke" a list of sites the virus-writer doesn't particularly like.

~ Nexus