More than one million computers infected with Mydoom virus![]()
http://www.eureporter.co.uk/articles/article.cfm?id=1320
Robert Vamosi
Senior Associate Editor, Reviews
Monday, Feb. 2, 2004
It's official: MyDoom is the fastest spreading e-mail virus or worm in computer history, beating out last August's SoBig.f. Security services firm MessageLabs reports that MyDoom, at its peak last Tuesday, was responsible for 1 out of every 12 e-mails. That compares with 1 out of every 17 e-mails for SoBig.f.
But what's even more incredible is that MyDoom does nothing special; instead, it relies largely upon classic, tried-and-true e-mail infection methods dating back at least four years. Which means we have only each other to blame for this outbreak.
SO HOW DID MyDoom do it? According to F-Secure, a Finnish antivirus company, MyDoom employed classic social engineering techniques. The author of MyDoom (which gets its name from a misspelling in the code for "my doomain," hence "MyDoom") crafted basic messages that looked like they could be legitimate e-mails.
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