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January 31, 2004

Virus Roundup

You can trust Tony to get the details right. If you follow that link, he has the nitty gritty on the wretched MyDoom virus including the following (very) relevant points:

- From: random e-mail address
- To: address of the recipient
- Subject: random words
- Message body: several different mail error messages, such as: Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available
- Attachment (with a textfile icon): random name ending with ZIP, BAT, CMD, EXE, PIF or SCR extension

Now you know. BTW, in case you were wondering, I don't use a PC (even at work) so it is unlikely that I would send a file with a PC extension ....

Posted by Ozguru at January 31, 2004 09:01 AM

Comments

I know SCO was offering a reward for the capture of the author ($US250,000) but I just found out that Microslosh are also offering a reward (also $US250,000). Does anyone know if these are affectively the same award? After all SCO has done a lot of Microslosh's dirty work lately.....

Posted by: ozguru at January 31, 2004 09:01 AM