RE: MyDoom

["Alan" <alancr () ntlworld com>]

> My understanding is that Mydoom-infected hosts receive 
> commands by connecting to an IRC channel.

Some variant might have, but most of the action here was network sweeps for
port whatever-it-was. Mydoom.c arrived with the source code and that
included a relatively trivial client (socks4 with kludges) for connecting,
sending and executing files via the mydoom backdoor. 






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