MyDoom dies today
Thursday, 12 February 2004 14:48 EST
MyDoom-A is programmed to stop spreading today, marking the end of arguably the worst email-borne viral epidemic to date. MessageLabs, the email filtering firm, blocked the virus 43,979,281 times in the two weeks since its first appearance in late January. At the height of the epidemic, one in 12 emails the firm scanned were viral. At the height of the Sobig-F pandemic last August one in 17 emails scanned by MessageLabs were viral. MessageLabs has blocked 33 million copies of SoBig-F, so MyDoom-A is the worst virus in terms of sheer weight of numbers too.
MyDoom-A was programmed to launch a denial of service attack against www.sco.com from infected machines. This – along with its spread – will cease today.
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