RobertBeard Posted 18 February 2004 Share Posted 18 February 2004 Macafee describe this one as of medium risk when MyDoom/Novarg were described as low risk to both businesses and home users Its an email worm and will come with an attachment so [BEWARE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest karlymyers Posted 18 February 2004 Share Posted 18 February 2004 Robert, i have just encouontered Mydoom virus, fortunatly norton discovered it before i had chance to open it, it affects your documents and settings and comes in the form of a zip, so even if medium risk it is still a pain to have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil Posted 18 February 2004 Share Posted 18 February 2004 Karly, MyDoom uses more that just zip for attachments, it masquerades as txt, bat, scr and many others. It will install an SMTP (mail) server on your computer and then scan your machine - text files, html files, address books etc for any email addresses it can find and then fake some emails and spread the virus. The attachments are always between 32-34kb in size - it's a good idea to turn on the size column in Outlook then you can get an indication by the size of the email before even opening it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest karlymyers Posted 18 February 2004 Share Posted 18 February 2004 neil, i have done all that and it still tried to get in, it had a second attempt but never managed to get there, thankfully....and i never opened it, any attachment i receieve i always scan before i open, (bit of a wise one!) karly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil Posted 18 February 2004 Share Posted 18 February 2004 I've had over 100 emails with it and it's a pain in the a$$ with the AV popping up all the time but at least it's catching it. Update you AV software as often as possible - weekly at a very minimum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest karlymyers Posted 18 February 2004 Share Posted 18 February 2004 neil, mine updates daily, thankfully...... karly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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