Word: mydoom
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Although the MyDoom and SkyNet Internet viruses have been spreading through University e-mail accounts like wildfire for weeks, the new virus, Bagle.J, sends what appear to be legitimate notes from system administrators at a Harvard.edu account...
...your article on the MyDoom Virus (News, “MyDoom Virus Infects Harvard,” Feb. 4) You called open source software ‘uncopyrighted’ software. This is incorrect. Most open-source software is covered by the GPL or the BSD license (or similar licenses such as Apache and PHP license). If a programmer contributes to Linux she does not revoke her copyright on the code. She simply gives the user a license to use that code and to copy and modify it as she wishes. The copyright holder can still release the same code...
Janacek said she received one MyDoom e-mail from a list for incoming first-years at Tufts, a university to which she never applied...
...while the debate over intellectual property and copyright protection played out at HLS, MyDoom continued to wreak havoc on some Harvard students’ computers...
...Apparently I’m sending out viruses without knowing it,” said Brianne C. Janacek ’07, whose computer was infected with MyDoom after she downloaded an attachment from the Texas Club e-mail list...