C
I Host Creates 'Doompster' Filter To Trash MyDoom Virus,
Cleansing Millions of e-Mail Messages For 205,000 Clients
Worldwide [January 28, 2004]
FORT
WORTH, TX (January 28, 2004) - C I Host, a global leader
in Web hosting, Internet infrastructure and software
development -- within 24 hours of the MyDoom viral outbreak
-- developed, tested and installed a virus filter it
calls 'Doompster' to totally extract and trash the worm
from the e-mails of its 205,000 clients.
Christopher
Faulkner, CEO of C I Host, said, "This virus is
spreading as fast as anything we have ever seen, so
it was 'job one' to create 'Doompster ' for our clients.
We are taking the infected e-mails and the attachments
out of the system, allowing our clients to concentrate
on business - immediately."
Experts
observed that the virus had infected one of every 12
e-mails. C I Host's network on Tuesday was logging 5,000
infected message detections per minute. Reportedly,
MyDoom also is designed to release a denial of service
attack, DoS next month, targeting a well-known Unix
developer.
Response
times from major Web sites' home pages have fallen by
about 50 percent since MyDoom's outbreak began on Monday.
So far, the Internet backbone itself has been largely
unaffected, running about 8 percent to 10 percent slower
on Tuesday. Accordingly, C I Host technical service
representatives tracked a 5 percent to10 percent increase
in tech support calls.
"The
worm was well-constructed, with much of the code encrypted,"
Faulkner said. "So the 'Doompster' remedy wasn't
an easy fix. But, we heard some customers were getting
as many as 200 copies per hour. So, we put a lid on
it."
--About C I Host--
C
I Host (www.cihost.com),
based in the Dallas/Fort Worth market, is a Web hosting
and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar
(DNR) and application service provider (ASP) serving
205,000 individual consumers and businesses in 182 countries
worldwide.
C
I Host creates business-class Web hosting solutions
for the small- and medium-enterprise (SME) market, with
the broadest portfolio of managed hosting and value-added
services in the industry. C I Host is accredited by
ICANN to register domain names.
C I Host is HIPAA-compliant and has
passed the SAS70 audit.
C
I Host has been ranked #1 in speed by the Adoloma Web
Hosting Guide. C I Host has been consistently ranked
among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000
around the globe by c|net's Ultimate Web Host List,
HostPulse, WebHostsOnline.com and HostChart.com. C I
Host was named among the Top 25
Web hosting companies by HostIndex.com.
C
I Host offers turn-key services ranging from initial
domain name registration to custom dedicated servers
for e-commerce on today's Web. The company offers innovative
packages and services to the Internet community.
C
I Host operates three diverse data centers across the
United States, with its main facility and Network Operations
Center in Bedford, Texas. C I Host also has offices
in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and London.
All
telco-grade, tier-1 data centers are wholly owned and
operated by C I Host and consist of redundant diesel
generator backups and a temperature-controlled secure
environment with fully redundant UPS capability. All
server hardware is fully tested and configured for optimal
performance. Daily Web server backups and full fire
protection guard against any data loss. To deliver speed
and reliability, C I Host's servers are connected to
two OC-12 fiber connections, five DS-3 and two OC-3
lines from five diverse Internet backbones for a total
of more than 2.6 Gigabits of
available bandwidth.
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Editorial Contact:
D. Kent Pingel
Public Relations Director
C I Host
888-868-9931 ext. 7006
kentp@cihost.com |
