1 in 12 emails carries the MyDoom virus.

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Wed Jan-28-04 09:02 PM
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1 in 12 emails carries the MyDoom virus.

The Windows virus known as Mydoom or Novarg continued to spread rapidly Tuesday, leading some experts to call it the biggest Internet infection of all time.

By the time growth of the self-propagating virus, also called a worm, leveled off Tuesday, e-mail security firm MessageLabs in New York estimated that 1 in every 12 e-mails was carrying it. That compares with 1 in every 17 messages that spread the virus vectors at the height of the Net's previous most prolific bug, SoBig, which hit in the summer.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/28/BUGCJ4J7571.DTL

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