RE: New Variant of mydoom in the wild

["Randal, Phil" <prandal () herefordshire gov uk>]

McAfee has a disinfection tool out (which also disinfects a host of other
"in the wild" viruses).  http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger - version 1.9.9
covers MyDoom.B

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com]On Behalf Of Helmut
> Hauser
> Sent: 28 January 2004 19:15
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] New Variant of mydoom in the wild
>
>
> There is a new variant of mydoom in the wild, much harder - 
> overwrites the
> hosts file and therefore gives the victims no chance to 
> update their virus
> defs ...
> and the second target is now microsoft.
>
> Trend-Micro has it first:
>
> here is the link:
>
> http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VNam
> e=WORM_MYDOOM.B&VSect=T
>
> Helmut
>
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