E-Mail Worm Snarls Computers Around Globe

January 28, 2004 | Source: New York Times

A new malicious computer program (Mydoom or Norvag) is spreading rapidly throughout the Internet today, swamping e-mail in-boxes and crashing corporate computer servers in what some computer security analysts are predicting will become the largest ever outbreak of viral e-mail. It may eventually involve millions of machines, according to experts.