NeonWizard Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 A pesky new variant of the MyDoom worm slammed four popular search engines Monday and continued to clog e-mail accounts around the world. The new version, variously dubbed MyDoom.M or MyDoom.O, was first detected early Monday morning and quickly went on a tear, flooding many mailboxes with hundreds of messages. It has also slowed Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos to a crawl, because once it infects a PC, the virus automatically performs Web searches on those search engines. E-mail screening company MessageLabs said it had intercepted more than 23,000 copies of the variants in the first five hours of their existence. McAfee Avert, the virus-tracking squad at the antivirus software maker, rated the worm a "medium on watch," or right below a high-risk vulnerability. Tens of thousands of PCs have been infected by the worm, which was first detected just before 6 a.m. PDT. The biggest impact, however, has been on the search engines.Read Article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Thanks for the info :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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