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Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems

Posted by simoniker on from the down-and-out dept.

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."

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  1. Service error -27. by drcannaba · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I get:
    Server Error
    The service you requested is not available at this time.

    Service error -27.

  2. Looks like their already dealing with it by lofi-rev · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Just got this reply: Your client does not have permission to get URL /search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=e-mail+example.com&btnG=G oogle+Search from this server.