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MyDoom variant erases files

Julio
02-25-2004, 05:03 PM
A new variant (http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/25/Hnlatestmydoom_1.html) of the MyDoom virus was discovered last week, reports indicate that the worm is still spreading and actively deleting files from victims' computers:

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.

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