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MyDoom FBI FOIA

22 pages of records from a request to the FBI through FOIA for records relating to the MyDoom virus from 2004. These records were a pre-processed previous release, I have asked for further records to be processed and released. ------ MyDoom worm spreads as attack countdown begins Variant emerges, targets Microsoft Thursday, January 29, 2004 Posted: 1911 GMT ( 3:11 AM HKT) LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Security experts warned on Thursday the fast-spreading MyDoom virus would plague e-mail users for some time as it counts down to a mammoth digital attack next week on Microsoft and software firm SCO Group Inc. For a fourth consecutive day, Internet service providers and corporations were bogged down by a crush of infected e-mails. Security experts said as many as one in three e-mails in circulation was triggered by MyDoom.A, making it the fastest spreading Internet contagion ever. "We are seeing companies struggling with this as they cannot clear the viruses quickly enough," said Graham Cluley, technology consultant for anti-virus and anti-spam firm Sophos Plc. "This one will be with us for a while." Meanwhile, sleep-deprived security experts said they were largely powerless to stop th

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