Further to my outburst about how network administrators and anti-virus companies may be making the whole MyDoom thing worse, here’s a similar take, albeit more detailed and informed than mine, from Attrition.org. The message: Treat all emails ‘notifying’ you that you have a virus as spam and inform the administrator/company/ISP accordingly. Thanks to the excellent… Read More »
It’s not my intention for loosewire to become a realtime virus news service, but this is a special case, so here’s more on MyDoom/Novarg, the worm that I’ve reported on before. Doom, it seems, is being prepared for the SCO Group, a company that sells Unix software and has been the focus of several Internet… Read More »
Further to my earlier posting, this MyDoom worm looks nasty. I’ve received three already in the past hour, all with different subject lines (or no subject at all), different attachments, but usually with the same content (‘The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.’ This could… Read More »
There’s talk of several new viruses out there which can do some serious damage. Here are a couple, in brief: MyDoom (sometimes known as Novarg and as a variant of the Mimail virus) has a random subject lines such as “Mail Delivery System,” “Test” or “Mail Transaction Failed” and contains an executable file and a… Read More »
I’m getting quite a few warnings about a new worm called Bagle, so I thought I’d pass them along. MessageLabs, an email security company, says it’s currently spreading at an alarming rate. The first copy of the worm was intercepted from Germany, and at the moment the majority of copies are being captured as they… Read More »