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Marc Flemming
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New Worm Spreading Rapidly Across Internet

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Security experts warned on Monday about a new virus outbreak that was spreading quickly across the Internet.
The new virus, dubbed MyDoom or Novarg, is a mass-mailing worm that arrives as an attachment with an .exe, .scr, .zip or .pif extension and can have a subject line of "test" or "status."

It mails itself out to addresses in the victim's computer and is clogging mail servers and degrading network performance at companies, experts said.

"Mailboxes at large corporations are infected and reporting multiple infections throughout their entire organizations," said David Perry, global education director at Trend Micro.

The worm was discovered on Monday afternoon and spread so quickly that Trend Micro, Network Associates, Symantec and other anti-virus companies were rating it a "high" outbreak.

Security experts said they were still analyzing the virus to discover what it does to the victim computers.

Source: Reuters

01-27-2004 03:32 AM

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What are the chances of this breaking through if I have a firewall and anti virus software?

Out of curiousity.

Of course thats just my opinion....I could be wrong. (Dennis Miller)

"You might be the toughest little whacker. . .but in my world, you're about as worrisome as a cloudy day." (Dutch Dooley)

He who angers you conquers you!! (A. Einstein)

01-27-2004 06:21 AM

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what are the chances if people actually used common sense?

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