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To: i-node who wrote (195911)	7/26/2004 3:30:21 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573848

No it isn't. You need to get your news from somewhere other than CNN; they report stuff before they check it out, and lie about it if it doesn't make a story for them. The instant they reported it, google was working fine in our office. Why do you do this to yourself? Repeatedly, you make claims without checking things out thoroughly. Google has not been working right all AM........I know that from personal experience. In addition, the same is being reported by most of the major media outlets; to whit: Google, other engines hit by worm variant Last modified: July 26, 2004, 11:47 AM PDT By Richard Shim and Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com update Major Internet search engines were crippled Monday morning by a variant of the MyDoom worm, rendering Google inaccessible to many users and slowing results from Yahoo. The attack also affected smaller engines, including Alta Vista, a Yahoo subsidiary, and Lycos. Google representatives confirmed that the MyDoom worm affected performance of the search engine, but, despite numerous e-mail complaints received by News.com, said the attack had a limited impact. "At no point was the Google Web site significantly impaired, and service for all users and networks is expected to be restored shortly," the company said in a statement. A Lycos representative said the company is aware of the problem and is working to block the performance obstacles. "It is kind of an inadvertent DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack," said Craig Schmugar, a virus researcher at McAfee Avert. The sites are being knocked out in the search for more e-mail addresses. This is a twist on MyDoom: earlier variants looked for e-mail addresses on the host hard drive. The latest version is now running queries on search engines. news.com.com