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Santa Monica, CA - MyDoom has outpaced SoBig.F as the most quickly
spreading virus of all time. Hardcore virus followers are eagerly
awaiting the release of MyDoom 3 by idSoftware.
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The year is 2095. The world has been
overrun by idiots who still open suspicious attachments.
And only you can
stop them.
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So far, only the alpha version of the virus has been previewed at
the VirDex virus convention whetting the appetites of Internet ne'er-do-wells
everywhere. Id promises the virus-game in its final version will
use up all the memory on the motherboard, video card, hard drive
and CPU caches while overloading the CPU with instructions and rendering
the computer unusable.
Many companies have turned to viral marketing, but id has taken
it a step further with viral distribution. They plan to distribute
the game as an e-mail attachment to a list of lucky people whose
e-mail
address
was obtained from the Internet using an advanced address-nabbing
spider. The attachment is the installer for the game, and when executed,
it sends itself to anyone in that person's address book, and then
continues to install the game. Rumors that the installer also launches
a DOS attack on Valve’s servers are still unconfirmed.
The game places the player in a pseudo-futuristic world in which
everything is run by a giant mainframe, which has become the target
of an e-mail virus that has been spreading over the WWWW (Wireless
World Wide Web). All citizens of this world have had PDAs implanted
on their forearms, which they use to surf the net and check their
e-mail. Using this to its advantage, the virus takes over the victims'
body, turning them into deranged killers bent on destroying the mainframe.
Of course, without the power of a mainframe the game will immediately
crash the player’s system.
"
We began developing this game after the I Love You virus hit the
web," explained Matthew Kerpin, lead programmer for MyDoom3. "The
game was originally going to be called ILoveYou2, but when we had
a beta of the game, nobody was talking about that virus anymore.
Because of a budget cut, we had to stop development on the program.
I tried to get them to start up again when Sircam came around,
but management ignored my pleas until it was too late. We finished
the game, but nobody cared about Sircam anymore. But now the MyDoom
virus is out and the game is finished, it seems only natural to
rename it, change a few title images, and redesign the box."
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