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MyDoom mutation draws on IE flaw

By Derek Sooman

On November 10, 2004, 1:51 PM

"We have only received one submission from the field, but the technical aspects of this are concerning. It has all the components there to become a significant virus." - Craig Schmugar, senior virus research manager at McAfee.

And while we are on the subject of viruses, there is a MyDoom which draws on IE flaws to spread. Labelled MyDoom.AG by McAfee and MyDoom.AH by Symantec, the nasty little blighter uses a recently discovered vulnerability in the browser software allows the offshoot to infect a PC after a user clicks on a link.

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