From: "Geo." 

No way, the level of knowledge required to write this worm reduces the
number of people capable of doing it to very few. The whole thing was
written in assembler and shows that the writer knew assembler, networking
(by his choice of UDP), and windows assembly level programming.

Whoever wrote it has been doing this sort of programming for a long time.

Geo.

"Raymond Chuang"  wrote in message
news:3e39291d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Here's the scary part: it is known that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda
> organization has access to quite a lot of computing equipment before much
of
> it was lost after the US overthrew the Taliban government in Afghanistan
> late in 2001.
>
> It's possible that an computer-literate al-Qaeda operative living in a
> "safe" area may have propogated the latest "worm"
as a test; they may be
> preparing to propogate a very nasty "worm" that will bring
down the entire
> public Internet by overwhelming routers around the world--and no operating
> system will be safe from such an attack.
>
> --
> Raymond Chuang
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>

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