Mydoom.A: Timeline of an Epidemic

[bigc73542]

Link to story: http://www.net-security.org/virus_news.php?id=359

{QUOTE-> Mydoom.A: Timeline of an Epidemic
Posted on 03.02.2004
Mydoom.A is the fastest spreading malicious code in history, causing the greatest epidemic ever seen. It is now estimated that over half a million computers around the world have been infected, including many thousands of businesses.

In fact, 1 in 4 e-mails in circulation -a total of more than 8 million- have been infected by this worm.

Financial losses caused by Mydoom.A are incalculable.

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[Peaches4U]

MyDoom comes a tad sneaky ... here is how one was delivered into my inbox a few days ago .....

Sender: amavisd-new
Subject line: Virus - [W.32MyDoom .....] in email from you.

In fact, this message contained the MyDoom worm but I was not fooled into opening it. :D

[bigc73542]

The longer it is out there the sneakier it seems to get. But fortunatly we have had quite a bit of info about it and it's different versions.