MyDoom virus declared worst ever
It's only two days old and still growing, but at least one security firm is ready to crown the MyDoom virus as the worst ever.
Finnish security software and services company F-Secure made the coronation late Wednesday, declaring the MyDoom the fastest-spreading worm ever and "the worst e-mail worm incident in virus history" in a letter research director Mikko Hypponen wrote.
MyDoom crawled onto the Internet on Monday, quickly clogging e-mail servers, as it propagated itself with millions of messages laden with malicious software code. An offshoot of the pest surfaced Wednesday but did not appear to be spreading nearly as quickly as the original.
F-Secure estimated that the worm was accounting for 20 percent to 30 percent of worldwide e-mail traffic Wednesday, putting it well ahead of previous nasties, such as the SoBig.F worm.
