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Latest Mydoom variant deletes files

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edited February 2004 in Nerdery
The latest variant of the Mydoom virus (Mydoom.F), is still spreading and actively deleting files from victims' computers. This particular variant, though not as widespread, should still be considered a hazard simply because of its very destructive nature.

[blockquote]The variant, dubbed Mydoom.F, not only tries to perform a distributed denial-of-service attack on the Web sites of Microsoft Corp. and the Recording Industry Association of America, but has a destructive payload that deletes document and picture files, according to researchers at Helsinki's F-Secure Corp.
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[link=http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/25/Hnlatestmydoom_1.html]The full report[/link] - [link=http://www.short-media.com/comment.php?976]Related news[/link]

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  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    oh noes!!1

    /me backs up "bible music" :vimp:
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited February 2004
    Holy crap that sounds like what happened to me a week ago. Yet my av isn't saying anything.

    /me hopes it isn't related
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    That nasty little SOB got loose on the campus network just the other day before Norton put out the defition and started sending e-mails from professors and such (of course the profs would be the ones dumb enough to open the attachments). I got quite a few in my inbox in a very short span of time.
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