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A pesky new variant of the MyDoom worm slammed four popular search engines Monday and continued to clog e-mail accounts around the world.
The new version, variously dubbed MyDoom.M or MyDoom.O, was first detected early Monday morning and quickly went on a tear, flooding many mailboxes with hundreds of messages. It has also slowed Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos to a crawl, because once it infects a PC, the virus automatically performs Web searches on those search engines.
www.zdnet.com
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This virus is using the search engines as well. This is something new. I hope this does not become a trend.
The new version, variously dubbed MyDoom.M or MyDoom.O, was first detected early Monday morning and quickly went on a tear, flooding many mailboxes with hundreds of messages. It has also slowed Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos to a crawl, because once it infects a PC, the virus automatically performs Web searches on those search engines.
MyDoom variant slams mailboxes, search engines
New version of worm clogs e-mail systems around world, slows Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos to a crawl.
www.zdnet.com
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This virus is using the search engines as well. This is something new. I hope this does not become a trend.
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