'Harmless' Netksy.D Internet worm on the wane: experts

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2004

HELSINKI (AFP) — The propagation of the Netsky.D Internet worm was tapering off, but the virulent bug was still generating millions of infected e-mails throughout the world, Internet security experts said.

"It seems to have leveled out now, and it won't reach the high levels that we initially expected," Mikko Hyppoenen, in charge of anti-virus research at Finnish Internet security firm F-Secure, told AFP.

After it was first discovered around noon on Monday, the bug spread rapidly, making many virus analysts worry that it would out-proliferate the now infamous Mydoom.A and Sobig.F worms, which are no longer active.

Netsky.D is not as malicious as those bugs, however, since it does not compromise the security of infected computers.

Instead, it merely...