Today is the anniversary of the Mydoom.A outbreak - the worst email outbreak in the history.</p><p align="justify">This incident, which started on January 26th 2004, bypassed even the Sobig.F epidemic of 2003. At its worst, a major part of all email traffic globally was caused by Mydoom.A. The worm generated over 100 million emails just during the first day of the outbreak.</p><p align="justify">Mydoom performed a denial-of-service attack on www.sco.com between February 1st and 12th, 2004. This attack, which was arguably the largest DDoS case in history, kept the target website down for weeks.</p><p align="justify">We first warned about the Mydoom worm on January 26th, at 23:05 GMT by issuing a Radar Level 2 Alert. About four minutes later we shipped detection for the worm. The Radar Level was raised to Radar Level 1 three hours later. This is the highest level we have.</p><p align="justify">Following Mydoom.A there was the infamous virus war between the Mydoom, Bagle and Netsky.</p><p align="justify">

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