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March 31, 2004 Variants of the NetSky worm accounted for 60 percent of all viruses reported in March, as the worm's writers waged a competition with the creators of the Bagel virus, a report says.MyDoom variant slams mailboxes, search engines
July 26, 2004 New version of worm clogs e-mail systems around world, slows Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos to a crawl.Double MyDoom for Internet Explorer flaw
November 9, 2004 A second MyDoom offshoot is taking advantage of an unpatched security hole in Microsoft's Web browser to spread.Sober storms charts as month's biggest attack
December 1, 2005 At its peak, the latest variant of the worm accounted for one out of every 13 e-mails sent, expert says.Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI
November 22, 2005 Worm variant flares up in the wild, playing on lure of heiress and fear of Fed snooping, but is coming under control.Sober.Q spreads hate messages in German, English
May 16, 2005 Distribution method of new worm may mean that Sober authors have remote control over thousands of PCs.Worm authors talk trash
March 3, 2004 Security researchers have discovered that the authors of MyDoom and Bagle are exchanging insults with the author of NetSky, using text hidden inside their virus code.
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