Mydoom worm likely from Russia, linked to spam mail

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2004

MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia is 80-percent likely to be the origin of the Mydoom computer worm, which has become the worst ever Internet epidemic, and could be an attempt to distribute spam mail, a top Russian anti-virus firm warned.

The Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs said Friday that it had traced the first emails infected with Mydoom to addresses with Russian Internet providers.

"We have special software to monitor Internet traffic across the world. This detected that the first emails infected by the worm came from Russian providers," the firm's spokesman Denis Zenkin, told AFP.

"But there is a still a 20-percent chance that this was an attempt to mislead. Virus programmers from other countries could have registered an email address in Russia and...