Guest guest Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 WinXPnews URGENT Virus Warning Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:21:31 -0500 Hi All, This is one of our URGENT Flashes about a fast spreading variant of the MyDoom Virus. The new 'F' is DELETING FILES from people's hard disks. Among these are ..doc, .xls and many others. Please find more relevant data below. We strongly suggest to visit the Symantec website and check out the virus description and the damage it does. They have a removal tool to get it off a hard disk once it's there. But it may also have deleted critical Word and Excel files! The W32.Mydoom.F@mm worm: Is a mass-mailing worm that opens a backdoor on TCP port 1080 Can download and execute arbitrary files Will perform a Denial of Service (DoS) against www.microsoft.com and www.riaa.com, if the computer's local system date is between 17th and 22nd of any month. Sets up a backdoor in an infected system, by opening TCP port 1080. This could allow an attacker to connect to a computer and use it as a proxy to gain access to its network resources. Here is the link to the Symantec website: http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=040224BL-Symantec Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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