New MyDoom Variant Uses Yahoo People Search

KingFishKingFish
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
Another new version of MyDoom is worming its way through the Internet, and this variant—like the last one—uses Yahoo as part of its infection routine.
MyDoom.P is similar to most of the other MyDoom variants in that it arrives via e-mail, with a spoofed sending address and a subject line designed to make it look like the message is related to one that the recipient sent. Among the subject lines in the e-mails are "SN: New secure mail," "Secure delivery," "Re: Extended mail," "Delivery Status (Secure)," "Re: Server Reply" and "SN: Server Status."
Source: eWeek

Comments

  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited August 2004
    I gotten a couple of those once. One had an attachment of a zip file, which contained an scr, and another looked like the same email (same number of lines) only the whole thing was in gibberish, with just the infected scr as an attachment.

    It's been a while since I've seen it though, about 2 weeks.
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