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Updated: MessageLabs Intelligence virus advisory: W32/Netsky.D (HIGH LEVEL)

Mar 3, 2004 12:27AM PST

W32/Netsky.D spreading at rapid rate - over 1.5 million copies intercepted

(Updated 3rd March 2004, 13.30 GMT, 8.30 New York, (4th March 2004) 0.30 Sydney)

MessageLabs, the leading provider of managed email security services to business, is reporting an upsurge in the number of copies of W32/Netsky.D currently being intercepted by the company. So far, MessageLabs has intercepted over 1,542,929 copies of the worm - 700,000 of which were stopped during the past twelve hours.

The peak infection ratio for the worm is 1 in 19.

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