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 News Item: New virus out: Worm.SCO.A, W32.Novarg.A, W32/MyDoom-A.
 Date Created: Jan 30, 2004
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Yet another virus hitting our mail servers.

The Mydoom virus will have the following Subect Lines

Subject:
(one of the following)

  • test
  • hi
  • hello
  • Mail Delivery System
  • Mail Transaction Failed
  • Server Report
  • Status
  • Error

DO NOT OPEN ANY MESSAGES LIKE THIS !!!!


W32/Mydoom@MM is a High-Outbreak Risk mass-mailing worm flooding email servers worldwide. When run, the worm steals email addresses from the infected machine and also automatically generates random email addresses for propagation. This email generation engine is similar to technologies spammers use to generate addresses for spam email campaigns.

W32/Mydoom@MM generates emails with a spoofed From: field, so incoming messages may appear to be from people you know. Furthermore, the subject line and message body are both randomly generated by the worm.

W32/Mydoom@MM also attempts to open a port on an infected PC, allowing a remote hacker to gain control of the system. (Installing a firewall such as McAfee Personal Firewall Plus can prevent this activity.)

If you are using our Mail Servers all mail is scanned by Clam Antivirus Software and will protect you from these viruses.

If you are using Outlook Express and using SPAM Assassin you will see messages like this, but the {Virus} means our Virus Scanning software is blocking this virus from reaching your computer.
(If you don't know about SPAM Assassin this is available from your control panel or contact us by using support@nzservers.com )

You can view what's happening with our mail servers by taking this link http://mailstats.nzservers.com

The following picture will give you an idea of what is happening on our servers

As you can see as from Tuesday our Anti Virus software is doing it's job to protect you.

CHECK THE NORTONS/SYMANTEC SITE OUT - Click Here

IF YOU HAVE BEEN INFECTED YOU CAN DOWNLOAD SOME FREE REMOVAL UTILITIES

Download the Mydoom removal utility from NZSERVERS Site - Click Here

Take the following link to download directly from Nortons Site

Click Here for Nortans Anti Virus Tool