Monday, July 26, 2004

New Mydoom Virus Variant Spreading Fast

A new version of the mydoom family of viruses is spreading rapidly today.  The virus is spread though an email attachment.  The subject line of the email will vary but the body will indicate that the users domain has been detected to have a virus.  It will request that the user opens the enclosed attachment for instructions on how to clean the virus. 

Due to the way this virus is constructed, search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc have been hit very hard today causing serious slow downs and some times prohibiting access to their sites.

Users should be made aware of this virus as soon as possible.

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