Storm Warning: Worm Threat Escalates

The Storm worm has grown into an online siege 10 times larger than any other e-mail attack in the last two years, amassing a botnet of nearly 2 million computers, with worrying implications, researchers say. Before Storm, an average day saw about 1 million virus-laden e-mails crossing the Internet, says Adam Swidler, senior manager of software security firm Postini. On July 24, researchers tracked 46.2 million malicious messages, more than 99% of them from the Storm worm.

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