Mydoom.O

Latest Mydoom variant causes problems for Google.

A new version of the

Mydoom worm

, Mydoom.O, has been spreading across the Internet by email, causing problems even for the Internet’s largest search engines.

The Register

reported

yesterday (when the worm first appeared in the wild) that a mini denial of service attack had been triggered on a number of search engines – most notably Google.

Google laid the blame at the feet of MyDoom.O, saying that the worm is using search engines to try and find email addresses.

• Read
  
  VB
  
  ‘s indepth analysis of
  
  earlier Mydoom variants
  
  .

• Read about the
  
  malware that use Mydoom’s backdoor functionality
  

• Sophos:
  
  W32/MyDoom-O
  

• Symantec:
  
  
  [email protected]
  
  

• McAfee:
  
  W32/
  
  [email protected]
  
  

Posted on 26 July 2004 by

Virus Bulletin