MyDoom

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:05 am Post subject: MyDoom

An email worm known as MyDoom, which masquerades as an advisory message from a computer technician, has become the worst internet virus since SoBig last year.

Anti-virus expert Alan Bell said yesterday that MyDoom-infected emails were dominating about 10 per cent of world internet traffic, nearly twice the infection rate of SoBig - meaning it was being carried by tens of millions of bogus emails every hour.

Some reports suggest it has been deliberately built to attack a US software company that has incurred the wrath of the worldwide community that uses the Linux operating system.

Others suggest it is coming out of a Russian server site that contributes to the general spam epidemic.

So far, about 100,000 machines worldwide have been infected, although early action by corporate networks in updating anti-virus software has prevented serious damage to computer systems.

Like others of its kind, MyDoom infects only computers using Windows and many home users have been hoodwinked by the apparently helpful nature of the host email's message.

MyDoom arrives as an email with a word such as "test" in its subject line and a message in the text area saying an email has failed and has been attached.

If the attachment is opened, the worm invades the computer, harvesting names from the address book and opening a communications port that could allow hackers to steal information from the hard drive. The worm then replicates itself, using the stolen addresses.

McAfee AVERT, Network Associates' anti-virus laboratory, reported last night that about 25 per cent of small-business emails scanned in Australia and New Zealand had shown MyDoom infection.

Sean Richmond, technical support manager for Sophos, said yesterday that the MyDoom worm turned an infected computer into "a zombie", which could be programmed without the owner's knowledge to attack the website of US IT company SCO Group, which is in dispute with the Linux community.

We got it at work. No real infection but the emails are non stop. I received over 500 emails yesterday and they are still coming in. All caused by this virus.

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[HALO]MasterChief · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:14 am Post subject:

yeah my school had it too. and now the email is shut down.
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Potato-VS- · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:27 am Post subject:

Lets hope that my mom doesnt open any emails and attachments from people who she doesnt know again

last time our computer was almost fecked.

Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:43 am Post subject:

That may explain why I've been getting so much crap on my primary accound. I don't open attachments unless I know who they are from and I am expecting something from them though. Not sure how I could have gotten this one

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The Nanite · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:49 am Post subject:

My Secure Mail servers have filtered 41,000 emails in the last 30 hours because of the new virus'.
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vTEC · Server Admin Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 1495

i've been getting a bunch of mails being sent from an unknownsender@unkown.com

....hmm....

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Jfet Zener · Server Admin Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 3353

this should all really be common sense. i think people should have to go through a certification course to use email...which would include dont open up attachments from people you dont know, even if they say they know you and they say they attached some nudie photos. if everyone followed this rule, we wouldn't have any of these problems.

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sgt stutter · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:56 pm Post subject:

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:05 pm Post subject:

Other than MyDoom, I've also seen MiMail & Novarg viruses popping up.
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omgshovelyouinthebutt? · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject:

good thing i dont check my e-mail

shovelnose · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:01 pm Post subject:

whats email?

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merf · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject:

Stevo · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info. I'll see if it found any of my emails yet.
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