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My Doom mydoom email virus

AnaSCI

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The Mydoom email virus is going around watch out,any mail message with attachments do not download


Since appearing late Monday afternoon, the worm, also known as Novarg or Shimgapi, has spread rapidly, mostly in North America, accounting for one in nine messages globally, experts said. The volume of messages clogged networks and appeared to be concentrated in corporate environments, experts said.


Anti-virus experts said the worm was designed to attack the Web site of the SCO Group Inc. (Nasdaq:SCOX - news), the small software maker suing IBM over the use of code for the Linux (news - web sites) operating system, experts said on Tuesday.


In response, SCO, which has drawn the ire of many Linux advocates for its claims that Linux software includes copyrighted code from the Unix (news - web sites) operating system, offered a $250,000 reward for "information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for this crime."


The new worm is activated when unsuspecting recipients of an e-mail message open a file attachment that releases a virus.


An infected personal computer could then allow attackers to gain unauthorized access and use the computer to aid in an Internet attack to bring down SCO's Web site, said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager at security company Symantec Corp.

The worm doesn't exploit any flaws in Windows, but rather is designed to entice the recipient of an e-mail to open an attached file and run programs contained in the attachment.


The mass-mailing worm that arrives as an attachment with an .exe, .scr, .zip or .pif extension and can have a subject line of "test" or "status."


Users who receive the worm and simply ignore or delete it will be able to avoid any damage.


MyDoom also mails itself out to addresses in the victim's computer and is clogging mail servers and degrading network performance at companies, experts said.





The worm appears to have a random sender's address and subject line and sometimes contains an error message such as "The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII and has been sent as a binary attachment."

Microsoft also offered two $250,000 bounties last November for information leading to the capture of those responsible for the Blaster worm and SoBig virus.
 
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armani1072

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yeah this virus sucks. especially when you do internet support :(