[LINK] Google spells out share offer details

[Ash Nallawalla]

> From: Tom Worthington

> KAREN PERCY: No sooner were the details out, than the company 
> was let down by technology, as the "mydoom" virus infected 
> the site and effectively shutdown its operations for two hours.
> 
> Tom Worthington, almost as soon as the details were out for 
> Google's IPO, the mydoom virus pretty much shut down its 
> operations. Is that a bad omen for the company maybe?
> 
> TOM WORTHINGTON: It's not clear at this stage whether the 
> mydoom virus was just targeted at Google in particular. It 
> actually hit other search engines as well. I don't really see 
> it as some sort of targeted campaign against Google.

A clarification for Karen.  Nothing I have read suggests that Google or any other
search engines were "infected". They have simply been heavily visited by infected
Windows-based PCs.

See points 6 and 7:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mydoom.m@mm.html

Quote:
6. Gathers email addresses from files with the following extensions: 

.adb 
.asp 
.dbx 
.ht* 
.php 
.pl 
.sht 
.tbb 
.tx* 
.wab

7. Queries the following search engines to harvest additional email addresses for
possible distribution:

search.lycos.com 
search.yahoo.com 
www.altavista.com 
www.google.com
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- Ash