Mydoom called the biggest virus ever

Security experts believe firm that licenses Linux is ultimate target. An antivirus company on 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.

Mikko Hypponen, head of antivirus research at the Finnish company F-Secure, said the Sobig virus, which struck in August, had infected millions of computers and caused over 300 million infected e-mails to be sent during its first week. But normally computer virus outbreaks wane after 24 hours, when most computer users have had a chance to update their antivirus protection software, and Mydoom showed no signs of abating on Wednesday, two days after being first detected. It was continuing to spread rapidly throughout the world.

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