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New Variant of mydoom in the wild


From: "Helmut Hauser" <helmut_hauser () hotmail com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:15:23 +0100

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?VName=WORM_MYDOOM.B&VSect=T

Helmut

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