Current Mydoom email virus worst ever

THE Mydoom computer virus is rapidly becoming the largest virus outbreak ever, and now accounts for one in every 12 emails sent.

Mydoom was overtaking the Sobig.F virus, clogging the internet with some 100 million infected emails in its first 36 hours and prompting the FBI to launch an investigation.
But analysts said that the slowing or crashing of computer networks may only be the start of the problems from the worm, which installs a program on infected computers allowing a hacker to take control and launch additional attacks.

The virus is programmed to launch denial of service attacks on the SCO Group, suggesting it could be linked to the company's legal action against Linux software.

He said virus uses "a very cleverly crafted social engineering trick," making the email appear to be error response or technical messages, inducing more users to open the virus attachment that causes it to spread further.

DON't open error messages with attachments