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MyDoom variant erases files

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On February 25, 2004, 3:03 PM

A new variant of the MyDoom virus was discovered last week, reports indicate that the worm is still spreading and actively deleting files from victims' computers:

[COLOR=#1951B9]The variant, dubbed Mydoom.F, not only tries to perform a distributed denial-of-service attack on the Web sites of Microsoft Corp. and the Recording Industry Association of America, but has a destructive payload that deletes document and picture files, according to researchers at Helsinki's F-Secure Corp.[/COLOR]

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