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Sophos virus experts have an interesting theory on a peculiar payload of the W32/Doomjuice-A worm. The Doomjuice worm drops a copy of the prevalent W32/MyDoom-A's source code onto infected computers, possibly in an attempt to make it more difficult to convict the true author. The Doomjuice worm drops a compressed copy of MyDoom's C source code into a number of directories on the infected user's PC. Detectives… Read More

British security firm MessageLabs is reporting that this week's “Mydoom” worm has become the fastest spreading virus ever. MessageLabs, reports it has intercepted more than 1.2 million copies of the new mass-mailer worm known as W32/Mydoom.A-mm and is seeing a peak infection rate of 1 in 12 emails. MessageLabs has issued a high-level alert for businesses. The worm was first intercepted by MessageLabs on January… Read More