Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems

Devil's BSD writes "It seems like the latest MyDoom worm variant has caused a bit of an Internet storm. Google, at this time (12:28 EDT), is returning 503 errors on all queries submitted from certain locations. The MyDoom variant searches the user's address book for email domains (i.e. @yahoo.com) and searches various engines (such as Google) for email addresses in that domain."

Comments

Shouldn't that be easy to fix?

[ggvaidya]

If MyDoom uses certain search strings, you just dump all such searches? Worse case, just dump any search for anything which looks like an e-mail account?

What a day to have problems!

[AKAImBatman]

CNN is on behind me, and they've been talking about nothing but Google's IPO. Seems like really bad timing for Google. :-(

The influence of Google in the world

[Darth Beto]

I'm in Mexico and Google is still not working! It is amazing that we're so tied to Google that we forget the others search engines (in fact when I couldn't search into Google I thought "well I'll wait a couple of minutes" instead of using another search engine like Yahoo!)