Week in review: Worm nips at Google's heels!

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The fast-moving MyDoom worm took some of the fun out of Google's pre-IPO festivities.

Major Internet search engines were crippled by a new variant of MyDoom, which rendered Google inaccessible to many users and slowed results from Yahoo. Google representatives confirmed that the worm affected performance of the search engine.

Despite numerous e-mail complaints received by CNET News.com that Google's search engine was down for hours, the company played down MyDoom's impact and said it had been not widely affected by the worm.

The problems were occurring just as Google set the price range --$108 to $135 per share--for its initial public offering. The company filed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise as much as $3.3 billion.

MyDoom peaked after around 12 hours, but not before leaving behind a host of ancillary infections, including one programmed to launch a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft.

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