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Latest Mydoom variant deletes files

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edited February 2004 in Science & Tech
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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