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MyDoom: Prevention And Cure

News 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. If you are running the file-sharing program Kazaa, MyDoom will add a file named...

[January 28, 2004, 9:05]

MyDoom Hits Music Industry

News The MyDoom.F virus spreads using a variety of subject lines and message text, usually attaching itself to the message as a Zip compressed file. The variant, MyDoom.F, deletes several different types of files stored on an infected computer and aims...

[February 23, 2004, 7:10]

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]

'Clean Up This Internet Effluent Now'

News Just to put a mark on that, 66 percent of the spam that we're now intercepting is coming from open proxies -- these are machines that have been infected with Trojans similar to those dropped with viruses such as Sobig, Fizzer or MyDoom.

[May 7, 2004, 16:10]

Bagle Uses Outlook Flaw To Speed Replication

News It has multitude of different methods of gaining access to a machine, including the back doors left by Bagle, MyDoom and Blaster. To fool antivirus software, the next batch of Bagles was sent with the infected attachment hidden inside an encrypted...

[March 18, 2004, 11:55]