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Virus invades major Web search engines; Script replicates self using e-mail addresses.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 27-JUL-04 		Format: Online - approximately 478 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Virus invades major Web search engines; Script replicates self using e-mail addresses.(BUSINESS)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Tim Lemke, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The world's largest search engines, including popular Google, were overwhelmed yesterday by a fast-spreading computer virus designed to gather e-mail addresses.

Internet users found the Google, Yahoo, Lycos and Altavista search sites either slow or unreachable for several hours as the "MyDoom.M" virus spread via e-mail to thousands of computers and prompted hundreds of millions of search queries.

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