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Infected computers participating in the distributed denial of service attack on U.S. government and South Korean Web sites are set to destroy their own data.

<p>(<a href="http://www.webhostmagazine.com" target="_blank">WebHost Magazine</a>) The botnet-driven cyber attack on government, financial, and media sites in the U.S and South Korea includes a newly discovered danger: The malicious code responsible for driving the distributed denial of service attack, known as W32.Dozer, is designed to delete data on infected computers and to prevent the computers from being rebooted.</p><p>&quot;Your machine is completely hosed at this stage,&quot; said Vincent Weafer, VP at Symantec Security Response.</p><p>The malicious code includes instructions to start deleting files when the infected computer's internal clock reaches July 10, 2009. That's today. <a href="http://www.webhostmagazine.com/in/displaynewscontent.asp?nwID=19824&amp;Page=1&amp;SearchText=" target="_blank">... Go to source</a> </p> <a href="http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/cyber_attack_code_starts_killing_infected_pcs.html">http://www.gawkwire.com/technology/cyber_attack_code_starts_killing_infected_pcs.html</a>