New worm jets through e-mail
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
A virus that debuted this week has been declared the fastest-spreading e-mail plague of all time, while another malicious program that hit last week continued to disrupt computers worldwide.The "Sobig.F" computer worm infected more computer systems yesterday, even clogging state-owned networks in New Jersey, New York and North Carolina.
MessageLabs Inc., a company that filters e-mail for corporate clients around the world, yesterday said it had intercepted more than a million copies of the Sobig.F virus the previous day, the most it has ever intercepted in a single day. That was one in every 17 e-mail messages the firm scanned.