Mydoom
Sign in to saveMydoom was a computer worm that targeted computers running Microsoft Windows. It was first sighted on January 26, 2004. It became the fastest-spreading e-mail worm ever, exceeding previous records set by the Sobig worm and ILOVEYOU, a record which as of 2026 has yet to be surpassed.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Mydoom is referenced by 115 other articles, and connects out to denial-of-service attack, timeline of computer viruses and worms and Sobig.
It sits within the topics 2000s in hacking, 2004 in computing and Computer worms.
Its subject is documented across 23 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Mydoom text file.png
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- Example of a randomly generated file opened by Mydoom after execution
- Computer virus.common_name
- Mydoom
- Computer virus.type
- Computer worm
- Computer virus.platform
- Windows 2000, Windows XP
- Computer virus.language
- C++
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- start time
- 2004-01-26
- title
- MyDoom
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Mydoom was a computer worm that targeted computers running Microsoft Windows. It was first sighted on January 26, 2004. It became the fastest-spreading e-mail worm ever, exceeding previous records set by the Sobig worm and ILOVEYOU, a record which as of 2026 has yet to be surpassed.
Mydoom appears to have been commissioned by e-mail spammers to send junk e-mail through infected, or "zombie" computers. The worm contains the text message ''"Andy; I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry,"'' leading many to believe that the worm's creator was paid. Early on, several security firms expressed their belief that the worm originated from a programmer in Russia. The actual author of the worm is unknown.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mydoom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.