Latest Email worm has SCO-facing payload
Tuesday, 27 January 2004 08:00 EST
Going by the name of 'Novarg' or 'MyDoom', the latest mass-mailing worm to infest your in-tray is spreading at the same rate as SoBig, according to the anti-virus industry. The worm also targets the SCO Group's corporate website, according to a Symantec alert. On Windows PCs, the worm creates 64 threads which will hit www.sco.com with GET requests, between February 1 and 12. It also copies itself to KaZaA's download directory, masquerading as a software executable: names include icq2004-final and winamp5.
Windows users should check for a file named shimgapi.dll in the system directory, and update their AV software.
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