MyDoom Worm Spreads as Hunt for Author Intensifies
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&u=/nm/tech_internet_mydoom_dc&printer=1 A cyber dragnet aiming to flush out the author of the MyDoom computer worm intensified on January 30, 2004 as the outbreak crippled still more e-mail networks. Investigators and security experts hoped their hunt would get a boost after Microsoft Corp. offered a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the creator of one variant, MyDoom.B. (Reuters Graphic)
The Mydoom computer virus was overtaking the Sobig.F bug as the largest virus outbreak. Mydoom clogged the Internet with some 100 million infected e-mails in its first 36 hours.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)
Ouch.