Tag: mydoom

Finnish security software and services company F-Secure said late Wednesday that the “MyDoom” virus is the fastest-spreading worm ever and the “worst e-mail worm incident in virus history.” CNET News.com reports: “MyDoom crawled onto the Internet on Monday, quickly clogging e-mail servers, as it propagated itself with millions of messages laden withmalicious software code. An offshoot of the pest surfaced Wednesday but did not appear to be spreading nearly as quickly as the original.

A new fast-spreading email worm, which goes by the name of “Mydoom,” “Novarg” or “WORM–MIMAIL.R,” is causing significant problems for network administrators and clogging up network traffic since its appearance on Monday, notes the Associated Press. The worm runs on Windows operating systems and “has all the characteristics of being the next big one,” said Steven Sundermeier, Central Command’s vice president of products and services.