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Signs Show Massive Reach of Latest Virus Infecting Web

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An antivirus company Wednesday declared Mydoom, the latest global computer virus, as the biggest ever, spreading at a pace likely to make it larger than the Sobig virus of last year.

Mydoom clogged the Internet with 100 million infected e-mails in its first 36 hours and is being investigated by U.S. law enforcement officials. In Europe, about 33 percent of e-mails being sent Wednesday afternoon were infected with the virus, according to Mikko Hypponen, director of the anti-virus division of F-Secure, a Finnish company.

Hypponen also reported that Internet security experts have found a new version of the Mydoom computer virus, dubbed Mydoom.B, that evades detection measures for the original virus. The second strain is programmed to attack the Web site of Microsoft, F-Secure said.

Hypponen said the Sobig virus, which struck in August, infected millions of computers and caused more than 300 million infected e-mail messages to be sent during its first week.

Posted by Bob King at January 28, 2004 05:01 PM | TrackBack
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