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MyDoom's Spread Sparks Antivirus Critique
Talkback Has anybody nboticed how many email autoresponders were triggered by MyDoom? Next months Spam Harvest should break all known records :(
[February 3, 2004, 8:37]
MyDoom's Spread Sparks Antivirus Critique
News MyDoom could spell the end of some security technologies. However, even though companies are still seeing massive quantities of email messages bearing the MyDoom virus, the spread has slowed, stressed Shipp.
[February 3, 2004, 7:20]
MyDoom Mutation Attacks Microsoft
News A new version of the mass-mailing MyDoom virus has hit the Net, aiming data attacks at Microsoft's Web site and interfering with an infected PC's ability to access downloadable security-software updates, antivirus companies said on Wednesday.
[January 29, 2004, 8:50]
MyDoom: Prevention And Cure
News MyDoom is a mass-mailing worm that masquerades as a test message. MyDoom (w32.mydoom@mm, also known as Novarg, Shimgapi, Shimg, and MiMail.r) takes advantage of the ZIP file format's ability to pass through email filters.
[January 28, 2004, 9:05]
MyDoom Compromises Web
News The mass-mailing MyDoom virus has become the fastest spreading program to date and the damage could continue for months or years. The effects of the massive spread of the MyDoom virus have already been felt.
[January 28, 2004, 7:15]
MyDoom Crowned 'worst Ever'
News It's only two days old and still growing, but at least one security firm is ready to crown the MyDoom virus the worst ever. Finnish security software and services company F-Secure made the announcement late on Wednesday, declaring the MyDoom the...
[January 29, 2004, 7:45]
MyDoom Spreading Again
News Another variant of the MyDoom worm, which spreads by sending copies of itself using its own SMTP engine and harvesting potential e-mail targets from search engines such as Google and Yahoo, was spreading quickly on Thursday.
[February 17, 2005, 8:05]
MyDoom Seeks To Destroy Antivirus Firms
News In the latest version of MyDoom - MyDoom.AE - the authors embedded a message ridiculing rival worm NetSky and promising to attack the antivirus companies. And MyDoom wanted to highlight they had won the war.
[October 18, 2004, 13:05]
MyDoom Trail Traces Back To Single Author
News The two versions of the MyDoom virus may have the same parent, according to a security researcher. The name "andy", which was left in the code by the author of the MyDoom virus, links the original program released a week ago with the B variant sent...
[February 3, 2004, 7:50]
MyDoom Strikes Again Through IE Flaw
News A new version of MyDoom uses an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer to spread, antivirus companies warned on Monday. The companies said they had only detected a few instances of the infector, which is labelled MyDoom.AG by McAfee and...
[November 9, 2004, 7:53]
MyDoom Author Appears To Cover Tracks
News A worm that started spreading on Sunday places the source code for the original MyDoom virus on victims' hard drives, an action equivalent to planting evidence, antivirus experts said on Tuesday. The worm, Doomjuice, spreads to computers that have...
[February 11, 2004, 7:45]
MyDoom Hits Music Industry
News A variant of the MyDoom virus has started spreading, albeit slowly, and security experts expect it to target the main Web site of the music industry. The variant, MyDoom.F, deletes several different types of files stored on an infected computer and...
[February 23, 2004, 7:10]
MyDoom Offshoots Add Anti-removal Code
News Security experts warned on Friday that several new versions of MyDoom have surfaced on the Internet, suggesting that worm writers are taking a stab at improving the venerable virus. The fact that several similar variations of MyDoom have been...
[September 13, 2004, 9:20]
MyDoom.Y Baffles Antivirus Firms
News A new version of the Internet worm MyDoom includes a photo of Netsky worm writer Sven Jaschan and a description of the worm itself. In the latest bizarre twist in the worm's development, authors included a detailed account of what MyDoom.Y does and...
[September 16, 2004, 11:55]
MyDoom Attack Dies Away After 12 Hours
News The latest variant of the MyDoom worm, which was discovered on Monday, peaked after around 12 hours and has already started dying out, according to antivirus firms. Security experts have been warning about the consequences of another MyDoom...
[July 27, 2004, 13:40]
MyDoom's Spread Sparks Antivirus Critique
Talkback Sandbox technology used on Norman's anti-virus software can and has prevented prviously unknown malware including MyDoom. Over the past few months it has detected MyDoom, Bagle and Zafi before signature files where available.
[August 12, 2004, 14:57]
Microsoft Site Easily Avoids MyDoom
News The start of a data flood by PCs infected with the MyDoom.B virus had little impact on Microsoft's main Web site on Tuesday, according to Internet watchers. The virus, which has spread less widely than the original MyDoom program, tries to connect...
[February 4, 2004, 7:25]
Latest MyDoom Attacks Yahoo People Search
News A new variant of the MyDoom worm, described variously as MyDoom.Q or MyDoom.O, was discovered on Tuesday that uses Yahoo's People Search to find new email addresses. Last week, a MyDoom variant pumped so many queries into Google that the search...
[August 4, 2004, 13:50]
Zindos Worm Relies On Its Pal MyDoom
News The latest variant of the MyDoom worm appears to form the first part of a two-pronged attack by preparing the path for a new type of worm that, in this case, is designed to assault Microsoft.com. MyDoom first appeared in January 2004 and overnight...
[July 28, 2004, 13:25]
Netsky.B Outstrips MyDoom
News In the last 24 hours, MessageLabs has stopped more than 10 times as many Netsky.B worms as MyDoom worms. E-mail inboxes are being swamped as Netsky.B continues to increase its infection rate. The worm first appeared on 17 February and appears to...
[February 24, 2004, 7:55]
