Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information on MyDoom virus author

Microsoft Corp offered a $250,000 reward on Thursday for the person responsible for the MyDoom worm, as the reported number of infected computers more than doubled overnight. The world’s largest software maker said it would pay the money for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for unleashing a variant of the malicious software code, called MyDoom.B, which is designed to attack Microsoft’s Web site. The Microsoft offer follows a similar $250,000 reward offered by SCO Group Inc., the small software maker suing International Business Machines Corp. over the use of code for the Linux operating system. The first version of the worm was designed to attack the Web site of SCO, which has drawn of ire of Linux advocates.

MyDoom, also known as Novarg or Shi>

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