2/21: MyDoom-BC an Email Worm for Windows |
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2/21: MyDoom-BC an Email Worm for Windows February 20, 2005
W32/MyDoom-BC is an email worm for the Windows platform.
Emails sent by the worm have characteristics similar to the following examples:
Subject line: hi error test Message could not be delivered
Message body: Dear user of (domain) Mail server administrator of (domain) would like to inform you that We have detected that your e-mail account has been used to send a large amount of unsolicited e-mail messages during this recent week. We suspect that your computer had been compromised by a recent virus and now runs a trojan proxy server. Please follow our instructions in the attachment file in order to keep your computer safe. Virtually yours (domain) user support team.
Attached file: attachment.com letter.zip (username).exe
More information can be found at Sophos page.
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