ISS X-Force has detected the aggressive propogation of a new Internet worm that spreads via email. Known as MyDoom or Novarg, this worm harvests email addresses from your hard drives and will mail copies of itself to addresses that it finds. It spoofs the "From" address to confuse victims as to the source of the virus. MyDoom spreads as an e-mail attachment that is either in an executable or zip archive format.
Impact: Aggressive propagation of mass-email worms have been known to cause localized email outages due to the load placed on email servers. MyDoom has been spreading very aggressively and is a serious threat to certain networks. It is also believed that this worm contains a proxy that may allow the infected computer to relay "spam" email.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
8:24 AM
