The Mydoom e-mail worm has infected
as many as 350,000 computers worldwide since it was spotted on
Monday, topping last year’s SoBig as the fastest-moving virus. A
new strain is now targeting Microsoft Corp.’s Web site.
Mydoom and a variant, Mydoom.B, are now affecting more than
20 percent of the world’s e-mails, redirecting them to Web sites
of Microsoft and SCO Group Inc., said Tony Magallanez, a San
Jose, California-based engineer at Finish security software maker
F-Secure Oyj. The viruses are designed to crash the sites.
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“This is definitely the fastest-spreading e-mail virus
ever,” said Craig Schmugar, a virus research manager with
Network Associates Inc.’s McAfee division. A large customer is
receiving infected e-mails at a rate of 160,000 an hour compared
with 140,000 an hour during the first few days of the SoBig
outbreak in August, Schmugar said. Mydoom and Mydoom.B spread an e-mail attachment that, once
activated, will send waves of information requests to specified
Web sites.
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