Scooter
01-28-2004, 06:28 PM
I wasn't sure where to put this, but I think it's important we keep each other as informed as possible about PC related events.
"Mydoom" arrives in a zip file carried in an e-mail with the subject lines "test," "mail delivery system," or "mail transaction failed." The body of the e-mail tries to trick the receiver into thinking that the actual message is in the attachment. The message contains such statements as "The message contain Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment."
Once opened, the worm installs a program in the infected PC and opens a "backdoor" that enables a hacker to take control of the computer, apparently in preparation to flood the SCO server with information Feb. 1, security experts said. The kill date for the worm is Feb. 12.
The virus, which affects computers running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP, scours the infected computer's hard drive for e-mail addresses to send copies of itself. Mydoom also copies itself to the download directory on PCs for the file-sharing service Kazaa.
If you want a really technical explanation, see:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/
w32.novarg.a@mm.html
You should not open any of these attachments and delete the email immediately. These emails contain a zip file--don't download it--just delete the message.
"Mydoom" arrives in a zip file carried in an e-mail with the subject lines "test," "mail delivery system," or "mail transaction failed." The body of the e-mail tries to trick the receiver into thinking that the actual message is in the attachment. The message contains such statements as "The message contain Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment."
Once opened, the worm installs a program in the infected PC and opens a "backdoor" that enables a hacker to take control of the computer, apparently in preparation to flood the SCO server with information Feb. 1, security experts said. The kill date for the worm is Feb. 12.
The virus, which affects computers running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP, scours the infected computer's hard drive for e-mail addresses to send copies of itself. Mydoom also copies itself to the download directory on PCs for the file-sharing service Kazaa.
If you want a really technical explanation, see:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/
w32.novarg.a@mm.html
You should not open any of these attachments and delete the email immediately. These emails contain a zip file--don't download it--just delete the message.