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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Zotob fails to make the charts

Netsky and Mytob topped last month's Windows Virus charts, as expected.But commenting on the Sophos list, Silicon.com reports that "the high profile Zotob worm, however, which hit a number of media organisations including the Financial Times and The New York Times, failed to make its mark on the chart despite incorporating elements of the Mytob source code."

Comment: Not only does this show that the ridiculous media hysteria over Zotob was misplaced, because it had almost no impact, but Zotob was actually less effective than Mytob, on which it seems to have been based.

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