-=PCTechTalk=- Fw: [WinTips-Tricks] Mydoom worm spreading rapidly
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- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:09:55 +1100
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Mydoom worm spreading rapidly
JANUARY 26, 2004 ( IDG NEWS SERVICE ) - A new e-mail worm has appeared on
the Internet and is spreading rapidly, according to leading antivirus
companies.
The worm, called W32/Mydoom, surfaced late today and is currently being
analyzed by antivirus companies.
"This worm is taking off like a rocket, with well over 20,000 interceptions
in just 2 hours of it being discovered," Ken Dunham, director of malicious
code at iDefense Inc. in Reston, Va., said in a statement.
The virus is also being called MiMail.R, Shimg, Novarg and Mydoom, althought
it's not certain yet that this code is a variant of the MiMail virus, Dunham
said.
Mydoom carries varying subjects such as "HELLO" or a blank subject, as well
as a variety of messages and attachments. When loaded, it calls up Notepad
and displays random characters, while creating a copy of itself and
modifying the infected machine's Windows registry to run the code upon
start-up. It may open a TCP port to listen for commands from a remote
attacker, according to Dunham.
"It also attacks sco.com with a DDoS [denial-of-service] attack," said a
statement from F-Secure.
It can spread by both e-mail and the Kazaa file-sharing system, several
antivirus vendors said.
Computer Associates International Inc.'s research labs received 11 copies of
the new worm almost simultaneously today, indicating a rapidly spreading
infection, according to a company spokesman.
Network Associates Inc.'s McAfee AVERT antivirus lab was also analyzing
copies of the virus. Mydoom appeared to be a "high risk" virus, according to
a spokeswoman.
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