Assessed Harm: eased back worldwide Web execution by 10% and Web load times by up to 50 percent
On Jan. 26, 2004, the MyDoom worm spread across the Web through email.
The worm likewise sent itself as a connection in what seemed, by all accounts, to be an email blunder message containing the message "Mail Exchange Fizzled." Tapping on the connection spammed the worm to email tends to establish in address books.
This worm was extraordinary in that it had a clock of sorts. The infection made began Refusal of Administration assaults, then, at that point, quit conveying itself 11 days after the fact. These assaults were focused on different Web servers, including assaults against web crawlers, making a few of them crash and others to return list items a lot more slow than typical.
Delivered on February first, 2004.
Recreated utilizing email and shared networks.
Made secondary passage that remained open even after the worm quit conveying itself.