Heads up again people Another Internet Virus. Just for your info.
E-mail Worm Attacks Internet Traffic
A MALICIOUS programme attached to seemingly innocuous e-mails is spreading quickly over the Internet, clogging network traffic and potentially leaving hackers an open door to infected personal computers.
The worm, called "Mydoom" or "Novarg" by antivirus companies, usually appears to be an e-mail error message.
A small file is attached that, when launched on computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating systems, can send out 100 infected e-mail messages in 30 seconds to e-mail addresses stored in the computer's address book and other documents.
The attack was first noticed on Monday afternoon. Within hours, thousands of e-mails were clogging networks, said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of Network Associates' antivirus emergency response team.
Besides sending out e-mail, the programme appears to open up a backdoor so that hackers can take over the computer later.
"As far as I can tell right now, it's pretty much everywhere on the planet," Gullotto said.
Security software experts were scrambling to decrypt the details of the malicious program and were arriving at different conclusions.
Symantec, an antivirus company, said the worm appeared to contain a programme that logs keystrokes on infected machines. It could collect username and passwords of unsuspecting users and distribute them to strangers.
Network Associates did not find the keylogging programme.
Symantec also found code that appeared to target The SCO Group Inc., which claims some of its intellectual property has ended up in the Linux operating system and is threatening lawsuits.
SCO's Web site, which has been targeted in the past, was available but sluggish late on Monday. Other firms, however, could not confirm that aspect of the attack.
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Harry0
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further news on the Mydoom virus.
THE fastest-growing email virus ever is showing little sign of slowing its worldwide spread, experts say.
MessageLabs, an Internet security firm, says it has detected 1.9 million copies of the Mydoom virus since Monday lunchtime.
Millions more computers have been targeted by the virus - or worm as it is technically known - in an estimated 174 countries.
"The virus follows the sun," said Natasha Staley, information security analyst at MessageLabs.
"It came from Asian, spread to the US and moved on to Europe. It is now on its second global run."
The Mydoom worm has spread even faster than last year's damaging Sobig virus.
Sobig was detected in one in every 17 emails at its peak compared with one in 12 for Mydoom, according to MessageLabs.
Detecting the worm is made harder because it is designed to spread to as many computers as possible by "harvesting" addresses on each terminal it successfully infects.
The ultimate aim of the worm appears to be the Web site for US software giant SCO, which is the middle of a dispute over the use of coding in the Unix operating system - a competitor to Windows.
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Fred
Thanks for that Fred - it appears that I don't have the Mydoom even though I am getting weird email messages saying my mail can't be delivered!! So, others who have my email address in their system have got the virus and so are sending out emails under my account???
Done the laptop too and it's clean and free from any virus.
Once again, in your debt Fred.
Got the pink fluffy handcuffs ready when you are! :rascal:
Weird....
I'm getting that too Jags and, like you, I've Symantec scanned and am clean. I've also scanned the network and it's clean.
Could it be that we're getting the splinters from infected systems?
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No - what it means is that the systems that are replicating the virus are spoofing the senders email address - so when people send you emails saying you infected them just ignore it. Again this is false authority syndrome kicking into action. If people did a little more research into the virus and its full attributes before they sent out emails saying "You have tried to infect our systems" they would look a lot less stupid.
Personally I have had 16 emails with variants of the virus in - as well as 3 emails saying I have infected other systems when I know it is impossible for that to happen........
So long as you know your system is clean just delete the emails or have a bit of fun at their expense by explaining where there message is flawed...
Hope this helps...
Fred
Still some people troubled with this
, they say they've dealt with it but I'm not holding my breath!
