Cyberattack slows after shuttering of SCO's site
Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:42 EST
The spread of the MyDoom computer worm was waning after it caused as many as 400,000 computers worldwide to bombard the Web site of SCO Group in the largest-ever such electronic attack, anti-virus experts said Monday. "The worst is over and we expect very little to happen tomorrow," said Mikko Hypponen with the Helsinki-based computer security firm F-Secure. More than a million computers are believed to be infected worldwide, he said.
A second strain of the worm was programmed to begin an attack Tuesday on the site of Microsoft, whose products run on about 95 percent of personal computers. F-Secure said it had received fewer than two dozen reports about that second strain.
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