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Already, experts are beginning to talk about how MyDoom revealed the inadequacies of countermeasures designed to thwart such attacks. Respectively, MyDoom and Sobig rank first and second in terms of the severity and global scope of the damage. Just in case security experts get too focused on the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) component of MyDoom, let's not forget that both attacks had some commonalities that the vendor community has so far refused to collectively deal with, despite being asked to intervene.