Virus nears 10 percent of all emails sent
MyDoom is looking less like a virus and more like the bubonic plague of the computer world. The computer virus has now claimed the dubious honor of being one of the fastest-growing infections in history, accounting for approximately 8 percent of email being sent. Virus experts also discovered that MyDoom is programmed to attack the web site of the SCO Group software company on Feb. 1. SCO recently began suing companies running the Linux operating system because the company claims it owns a patent to parts of the system, and investigators believe anti-SCO Linux proponents are behind the attacks. The company is offering a $250,000 reward for information that will lead to the arrest of the MyDoom mastermind. MyDoom, which arrives in email boxes with a text attachment that attacks its computer host when opened, is particularly unrelenting because it comes with a variety of subject lines and return addresses, making it hard to identify.

Twice-acquitted DVD Jon wants damages
The movie industry dragged Norway’s “DVD Jon” to court, and now he wants them to pay, literally. Jon Lech Johansen, 20, who cracked security codes on Hollywood DVDs, is seeking about $21,800 in compensation for economic losses and court costs now that he has been acquitted twice of computer piracy, his lawyer said Tuesday. Johansen developed a program called DeCSS that allows the viewing of DVD movies on Linux-based computers without DVD-viewing software when he was just 15, then posted the codes on the internet in 1999. Norway's economic crime police charged him with data break-in after receiving a complaint from the Motion Picture Association of America and the DVD Copy Control Association, which licenses the film industry's Content Scrambling System, or CSS. They demanded a suspended jail sentence, confiscation of equipment and fines. However, Norwegian courts twice ruled that Johansen could not be convicted of breaking into DVDs that he bought legally, nor could he be punished for providing a tool such as a computer program that others might use for illegal acts.

ABC Sports sues over alleged 'MNF' piracy
ABC Sports is throwing a penalty flag at 26-year-old Darren Cleveland, a webmaster from Delray Beach, claiming he has used the trademarked words “Monday Night Football” on his two web sites: mondaynight-football.com and football-mondaynight.com. Cleveland said he was unaware that the words were actually trademarked. ABC Sports has accused Cleveland of using the Monday Night Football name to spam internet users, leading the public to believe that the sites were endorsed by ABC and its parent, Walt Disney Co. ABC has asked that Cleveland discontinue his web sites, give the network the list of email addresses that the sites have spammed, and pay for ABC’s attorney’s fees in addition to three times the profit he has made from the sites.

What Clinton wasn't doing in Oval Office: Emailing
We already know what (or perhaps whom) Bill Clinton did do in the Oval Office, but here’s what he wasn’t doing: emailing. The archives of Clinton’s presidential library will contain 39,999,998 emails written by the former president's staff and the only two that he actually sent himself. Actually, one of the latter may not qualify as a real email because it was just a test to see if the head of our country could figure out how to click the send button. Former Ohio Sen. John Glenn has the dual distinction of being the first American to orbit the Earth and, just as significantly, having been the only person to receive an email written by Clinton during his presidency. The email was sent praising Glenn for his return to space after nearly 40 years.