Mydoom virus starts to fizzle out
Found on BBC on Friday, 06 February 2004
Figures from mail filtering firm MessageLabs show that the number of copies of the virus being caught everyday are swiftly diminishing.
Despite the slowdown Mydoom has already become the fastest spreading virus ever and looks set to challenge the Sobig.F program for the most active virus of all time.
The virus did not rely on technical tricks to spread so far and wide, instead it played on the gullibility of users to open the e-mail message bearing it and click on the infected attachment.
A perfect proof of concept: users still haven't learned. They still open any attachment they receive, without thinking first and afterwards damn the virus writer. But then, people also trust spam and 419er scams. Of course, someone you never met before needs you to get millions of dollars out of Nigeria. And of course, you'll be rewarded. Human stupidity...