Mydoom.O

Latest Mydoom variant causes problems for Google.

A new version of the Mydoom worm, Mydoom.O, has been spreading across the Internet by email, causing problems even for the Internet's largest search engines.

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The Register reported yesterday (when the worm first appeared in the wild) that a mini denial of service attack had been triggered on a number of search engines - most notably Google.

Google laid the blame at the feet of MyDoom.O, saying that the worm is using search engines to try and find email addresses.

26 July 2004

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