Doomsday - One Year On, MessageLabs, 26 Jan 2005

“On the first anniversary of the infamous MyDoom.A worm, MessageLabs examines how it changed the virus landscape forever. At 13.26pm on 26th January 2004 MessageLabs, the world’s leading provider of email security services to business, intercepted its first copy of W32/MyDoom.A. Within the first twenty-four hours, the company had stopped over 1.2 million copies. MyDoom.A, which achieved a peak infection rate of 1 in 12 emails, has proved to represent a landmark in the history of computer viruses, and the legacy lives on…�

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