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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, CNET reports.
The new version, variously dubbed MyDoom.M or MyDoom.O, was first detected early Monday morning and quickly went on a tour, 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.
E-mail screening company MessageLabs said it had intercepted more than 23,000 copies of the variants in the first five hours of their existence. Tens of thousands of PCs have been infected by the worm, The biggest impact, however, has been on the search engines. Google, Lycos and AltaVista were sporadically out of service, while Yahoo has been slow.
The new version, variously dubbed MyDoom.M or MyDoom.O, was first detected early Monday morning and quickly went on a tour, 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.
E-mail screening company MessageLabs said it had intercepted more than 23,000 copies of the variants in the first five hours of their existence. Tens of thousands of PCs have been infected by the worm, The biggest impact, however, has been on the search engines. Google, Lycos and AltaVista were sporadically out of service, while Yahoo has been slow.