PCs Used in Korean DDoS Attacks Begin to Self Destruct

[slgrieb]

Another entertaining blog from Brian Krebs' Security Fix column in the Washington Post. I doubt if anyone remains unaware of the DDOS attacks that have recently targeted several U.S. and South Korean web sites, but it seems that a new wrinkle in the story is that many, perhaps all, of the infected PC's used to carry out the attacks are also infected with a MyDoom variant that is wiping the hard drives on the compromised machines.

The blog also drew a much higher than average number of responses, many of which are exceptionally insightful. Along with the predictable and less than brilliant "I run [insert non-Windows OS of choice here] and I ain't got no viruses," and "ChromeOS will make the world perfect."

[NooNoo]

The stupid thing is that those without backups will blame Microsoft for not protecting them. I think the guy who wants congress to legislate to force people to use AV is quite possibly out of his tiny....

[Guts3d]

We have enough legislation, thank you very much. Besides, how could they tell if you have an A/V running without a house to house search?

[slgrieb]

When you look at the system being affected here, I think you probably would get the same pattern as Conficker infections, for example: unpatched, unprotected, pirated copies of Windows.