MyDoom computer worm spreading quickly
Tuesday, 27 January 2004 07:59 EST
The newly discovered ``MyDoom'' computer worm was spreading fast across e-mail networks today in what was being called the biggest virus threat in months. The worm, also known as ``Novarg'' and ``MiMail.r,'' was rated as a ``high-outbreak'' by security software maker Network Associates. The designation was higher than the ``SoBig'' worm, which plagued computer users in August, and the highest since the ``I love you'' virus in 2000.
``It's spreading at an incredibly fast rate,'' said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of Network Associates' anti-virus unit McAfee AVERT. ``I suspect we'll see into the hundreds of thousands of machines affected.''
He said that McAfee had received reports from some companies receiving MyDoom e-mails at rates as great as 1,000 a minute. He added at as many as six Fortune 500 companies have been affected.
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