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| WARNING THE WORM MORPHED!!; From Yahoo.com news, in Singapore | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 28 2004, 09:47 PM (81 Views) | |
| Seoul Survivor | Jan 28 2004, 09:47 PM Post #1 |
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New Mydoom.B version of computer virus found: expert ADVERTISEMENT AFP Photo Internet security experts found a new version of the Mydoom computer virus, dubbed the Mydoom.B, that evades detection measures for the original virus, Finland's F-Secure said. "The new virus has been modified so that the original Mydoom anti-virus protection does not detect it," Mikko Hyppoenen, director of computer security firm F-Secure's anti-virus division, told AFP. "It is in the wild, and computers are getting infected, but so far in less numbers than by the original Mydoom virus," he added. The Mydoom.B virus is designed to attack www.microsoft.com, Microsoft Corp's main website, as well as the website of US-based software vendor SCO, which is the sole target of the original Mydoom virus. In addition, it has a new feature, rendering it impossible for infected computers to access the websites of several anti-virus software firms. "This is a nightmare come true for us .... infected users won't get updates from anybody," Ero Carrera, a virus cracker with F-Secure, said after neutralizing the latest variant. The new virus has already been cracked however, taking F-Secure's experts just 90 minutes and posing far less trouble than the first one, Hyppoenen said. "This was much easier, since we already had cracked and thoroughly analyzed the first version, so it went fast," he noted. Computer users should update their virus protection software immediately, he urged, adding that several anti-virus firms have posted the necessary software free of charge on their websites. To get rid of the virus, users should access the anti-virus firms' web sites from a clean computer and download the necessary files there, then transfer them to the infected computer by floppy disk, he said. The new virus must have been created by the same person or group that authored the first Mydoom virus, as the modifications were made to the original source code, Hyppoenen said. Buried in its programming code -- and only readable after it has been decrypted -- was also the message "Andy; I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry" from the creator, Hyppoenen said. F-Secure Corporation is a leading provider of security for companies' computer systems, including anti-virus software. On Wednesday the original Mydoom virus continued to spread throughout the world, causing over 100 million infected e-mails to be sent. In Europe the percentage of e-mails infected by the Mydoom virus rose from 21 percent Wednesday morning to over 33 percent in the afternoon, Hyppoenen said, citing statistics from several European Internet service providers. Most of those e-mails never reached end-users though, as many companies' anti-virus protection system intercepted them before they reached their destinations, he said. #KMR# ..Seoul Comments: If you run any of the anti virus software, for the time being, update it at least once a day! |
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| AMR | Jan 28 2004, 09:58 PM Post #2 |
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dang who makes these things? and why do they make them to take down the people that made all this? if they don't like it whey do they even have a computer!? |
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| Seoul Survivor | Jan 28 2004, 10:02 PM Post #3 |
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I dunno David. But as of Wednesday afternoon, European time, 33% of the e-mail traffic in Europe was from the virus. This really clogs things up. Here in Las Vegas, I've had to reboot my cable modem, twice, in two days. Something I haven't had to do in six months. The problem went beyond ipconfig /release/renew commands. Caused by the virus?? I dunno... //Seoul |
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| LazY MisS Ally | Jan 31 2004, 06:28 PM Post #4 |
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wut da h.ell is up wif deez viruses?! danx 4 da info |
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| Seoul Survivor | Jan 31 2004, 10:15 PM Post #5 |
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It is supposed to be worst on Sunday, Feb 1st. So if you get any new e-mails tomorrow, I suggest scanning any attachmehts before opening, in case you don't do that now. //Seoul |
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| AMR | Jan 31 2004, 10:42 PM Post #6 |
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damn Ive already got like 20 of these Emails it's driving me crazy! |
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| Seoul Survivor | Feb 1 2004, 12:55 AM Post #7 |
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Here is more on the worm, and 01-February 04 MyDoom virus prepares for bigger attack on Sunday http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | (KRT) The spread of the MyDoom worms slowed markedly Thursday, as computer users learned how to protect their machines from infection. No hard numbers were available, but Internet security firms said e-mail traffic was normal, in contrast with the surge of messages sent by the MyDoom worms beginning on Monday. The worms - a kind of aggressive computer virus - are expected to remain quiescent at least until Sunday. That is when MyDoom and its cousin, MyDoom.B, are set to swamp Microsoft Corp. and SCO Group Web sites in an effort to crash them. "Typically you will see a slowdown for a number of reasons," said Brian Czarny, marketing director of MessageLabs. "As people get more educated, they stop opening the attachments." Both MyDooms spread via e-mail bearing an attached file. The official-looking e-mail - some bearing words like "system administrator" or "server report" - contains an icon indicating an attachment. Anyone clicking on the icon will activate the worm. The MyDoom worms garnered much media attention this week, and that is warning people about suspicious e-mail, security experts said. Infectious e-mail is melding with spam to create yet another annoyance for people dependant on the Internet. "The virus issue is converging rapidly with the spam issue," said Chris Belthoff, senior security analysis with Sophos Inc., a provider of computer security systems. Spam is the unwanted advertising e-mail that deluges inboxes with offers of extended auto warranties, shady pharmacies that require no prescription and a great deal of other scurrilous material. "We are seeing viruses infecting machines to set them up as spam zombies," Belthoff said. A zombie computer is one controlled by a hacker to send out huge amounts of spam. Both versions of MyDoom contain can break into personal computers and seize control. The owner of the computer might never know that his machine is producing a torrent of spam e-mails. MyDoom and MyDoom.B are believed to have been created by the same person. But other hackers are thought to be taking advantage of the worms' ability to create a backdoor in computer systems, leaving them vulnerable to takeover. "We are starting to see an increase in scanning for infected machines," said Alfred Huger, senior director of engineering at Symantec Security Response, a large computer security firm. Huger said he believes hackers are searching the Internet for computers already opened up by MyDoom and using the backdoor it created for their own purposes. "When ever a worm or virus come out with a backdoor that's easily identifiable, other hackers try to leverage that," Huger said. "It is alarmingly frequent." #KMR# //Seoul |
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| LazY MisS Ally | Feb 1 2004, 05:23 PM Post #8 |
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danx, man. diz realli sux.. stooped virusez... -_- |
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