Pete Maravich

He was, and still is, the youngest player to be inducted. Schmugar chose the name after noticing the text "mydom" within a line of the program's code. Maravich was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987. Mydoom was named by Craig Schmugar, an employee of computer security firm McAfee and one of the earliest discoverers of the worm. He enjoyed the life of a retired basketball player. Later analyses were less conclusive as to the link between the two worms. In 1982 Pete Maravich found religion and became a motivational speaker, incorporating Christian faith into his message. Initial analyses of Mydoom suggested that it was a variant of the Mimail worm — hence the alternate name Mimail.R — prompting speculation that the same persons were responsible for both worms.

In the 1979-80 season the Jazz became the Utah Jazz, and Maravich was soon traded to the Boston Celtics, where he played for one season alongside Larry Bird before retiring. [3]. Many say that he had his best years in the NBA as a player while in New Orleans. Since then, it has been likewise rejected by law enforcement agents investigating the virus, who attribute it to organized online crime gangs. After four years there, he was back in Louisiana upon being traded to the New Orleans Jazz. This theory was rejected out of hand by security researchers. In November of 1970, Maravich started his NBA career with the Atlanta Hawks. Trade press conjecture, spurred on by SCO Group's own claims, held that this meant the worm was created by a Linux or open source supporter in retaliation for SCO Group's controversial legal actions and public statements against Linux.

He graduated from LSU in 1970, but the respect he garnered among many of Louisiana's basketball fans would bring him back to that state soon. 25% of Mydoom.A-infected hosts targeted www.sco.com with a flood of traffic. He scored a personal record of 69 points versus Alabama during a game that year, and garnered numerous other awards and college records. Speculative early coverage held that the sole purpose of the worm was to perpetrate a distributed denial-of-service attack against SCO Group. Maravich was named The Sporting News' player of the year in 1970. [2] The actual author of the worm is unknown. Many of his outside shots would be three-pointers today. Early on, several security firms published their belief that the worm originated from a professional underground programmer in Russia.

Second, he played more than 15 years before the NCAA instituted the three-point field goal. Mydoom appears to have been commissioned by e-mail spammers so as to send junk e-mail through infected computers.[1] The worm contains the text message "andy; I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry," leading many to believe that the worm's creator was paid to create it. His records are even more remarkable for two reasons: First, in Maravich's time, freshmen were ineligible for varsity sports - meaning that he only had three years to compile his career point totals instead of the four years today's college players have. It became the fastest spreading email worm ever (as of January 2004), exceeding previous records set by the Sobig worm. He scored a record 3,667 points for his career at LSU, which lasted from 1967-1970, and averaged 44.2 points per game for his career, also a record. It was first sighted on January 26, 2004. This is where he, along with his trademark floppy gray socks, became legendary. Mydoom, also known as Novarg, Mimail.R and Shimgapi, is a computer worm affecting Microsoft Windows.

And so, in 1966, Pete decided to attend Louisiana State University, where his father was head basketball coach. 18 February 2005: MyDoom version AO appears. During his years at those schools, he wowed college scouts with his ability to play his favorite sport. 10 September: MyDoom versions U, V, W and X appear, sparking worries that a new, more powerful MyDoom is being prepared. He attended three high schools as a teen: Daniel High School in Clemson, South Carolina, Needham Broughton in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Edward Military Institute in Salemburg, North Carolina. 26 July: A variant of Mydoom attacks Google, AltaVista and Lycos, completely stopping the function of the popular Google search engine for the larger portion of the workday, and creating noticeable slow-downs in the AltaVista and Lycos engines for hours. He decided on the guard position, the only position he would ever play. 1 March: Mydoom.B is programmed to stop spreading; as with Mydoom.A, the backdoor remains open.

Pete would spend hours practicing ball control tricks, passes, head fakes, and long range shots. However, the backdoor remains open after this date. His father Press Maravich, former player turned coach, showed Pete the fundamentals starting at age 7. 12 February: Mydoom.A is programmed to stop spreading. Born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania and of Serbian descent, Pete had seemed to marvel his family and friends with his basketball ability since he was young. Its payload, akin to one of Mydoom.B's, is a denial-of-service attack against Microsoft. Pete Maravich (June 22, 1947 - January 5, 1988), known in the basketball world as "Pistol Pete", was a legendary player who starred in college and for three NBA teams. It does not attack non-infected computers.

[7] This worm uses the backdoor left by Mydoom to spread. 9 February: Doomjuice, a "parasitic" worm, begins spreading. Some experts point out that the burden is less than that of Microsoft software updates and other such web-based services. This is attributed to the comparatively low distribution of the Mydoom.B variant, the high load tolerance of Microsoft's web servers and precautions taken by the company.

However, the impact of the attack remains minimal and www.microsoft.com remains functional. 3 February: Mydoom.B's distributed denial of service attack on Microsoft begins, for which Microsoft prepares by offering a website which will not be affected by the worm, information.microsoft.com. 2 February: The SCO Group moves its site to www.thescogroup.com. (There is as yet no independent confirmation of www.sco.com in fact suffering the planned DDOS.).

As 1 February arrives in East Asia and Australia, SCO removes www.sco.com from the DNS around 1700 UTC on 31 January. 1 February 2004: An estimated one million computers around the world infected with Mydoom begin the virus's massive distributed denial of service attack—the largest such attack to date. Microsoft offers US $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the creator of Mydoom.B. 29 January: The spread of Mydoom begins to decline as bugs in Mydoom.B's code prevent it from spreading as rapidly as first anticipated.

Mydoom.B also blocks access to the websites of over 60 computer security companies, as well as pop-up advertisements provided by DoubleClick and other online marketing companies. The new version includes the original denial of service attack against SCO Group and an identical attack aimed at Microsoft.com beginning on 3 February 2004 — though both attacks are suspected to be either broken, or non-functional decoy code intended to conceal the backdoor function of Mydoom. The first messages sent by Mydoom.B are identified at around 1400 UTC and also appear to originate from Russia. 28 January: A second version of the worm is discovered two days after the initial attack.

In the US, the FBI and the Secret Service begin investigations into the worm. 27 January: SCO Group offers a US $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the worm's creator. Computer security companies report that Mydoom is responsible for approximately one in ten e-mail messages at this time. For a period of a few hours mid-day, the worm's rapid spread slows overall internet performance by approximately ten percent and average web page load times by approximately fifty percent.

The earliest messages originate from Russia. 26 January 2004: The Mydoom virus is first identified around 8am EST (1300 UTC), just before the beginning of the workday in North America. Later testing suggests that it functions in only 25% of infected systems. Many virus analysts doubted if this payload would actually function.

A denial of service attack against the website of the controversial company SCO Group, timed to commence 1 February 2004. A backdoor on port 3127/tcp to allow remote control of the subverted PC (by putting its own SHIMGAPI.DLL file in the system32 directory and launching it as a child process of the Windows Explorer); this is essentially the same backdoor used by Mimail.