New version of MyDoom-0 spreading in the wild.SophosLabs have warned users to be on guard against a new version of the MyDoom-0 worm which emerged recently. The original version of the MyDoom-0 worm disrupted dis·rupt tr.v. dis·rupt·ed, dis·rupt·ing, dis·rupts 1. To throw into confusion or disorder: Protesters disrupted the candidate's speech. 2. the popular Google website for a short while in July 2004, making it inaccessible inaccessible Surgery adjective Unreachable; referring to a lesion that unmanageable by standard surgical techniques–eg, lesions deep in the brain or adjacent to vital structures–ie, not accessible. See Accessible. to many users, as it tried to harvest email addresses See Internet address. from the search engine. The new version has been repackaged, possibly not by the original author, in an attempt to avoid detection by anti-virus products. However, Sophos's anti-virus products have been detecting this new version since 22:54 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) See UTC. GMT - Universal Time 1 on 16 February 2005. Comment: The MyDoom-0 worm can use the internet search engines Google, Yahoo, Lycos and AltaVista to try and gather email addresses to send itself to. "What is ingenious in·gen·ious adj. 1. Marked by inventive skill and imagination. 2. Having or arising from an inventive or cunning mind; clever: an ingenious scheme. See Synonyms at clever. 3. about the MyDoom-0 virus is the way it can find email addresses of potential victims. Like many other email worms it searches your hard drive for email addresses, but then it uses the domain names it has found to discover other victims via search engines explained Cluley. www.sophos.com |
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