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.
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
Tags:
virus
del.icio.us
digg this
Poll
Do you use the same password(s) across multiple websites?Leave a comment
View 4 comments

VB100 certification
This month VB's test team put 26 products to the test on
Windows Server 2008. John Hawes has the full results.
See full results.
Virus Bulletin currently has 190,981 registered users.

