Assassin terminates 10,000 MyDooms

The MyDoom virus was recently reported reeking havoc across the internet and in the last ten days Channel 6 Multimedia's server based anti virus software, Assassin, has been working over time deleting infected emails. Over 10,000 emails have been deleted in the last 10 days, about 1 message every minute.

Although the virus is easy to spot and delete, many customers were receiving hundreds of emails every hour, blocking there in-boxes and desktop virus software. With the software on the server the infected mail is deleted so that the customer is never inconvenienced.

[05.02.2004]