Virus mobilises Kazaa army against SCO
Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:14 EST
A virulent new worm has infected thousands of users across the world within hours of being discovered. Mydoom.A.worm spreads via email and peer-to-peer network Kazaa, but also leaves port 3127 open to allow malicious hackers to take control of compromised computers. This virus is also ready to launch a denial of service attack against The SCO Group website on 1 February, according to MessageLabs.
Mark Sunner, chief technology officer at MessageLabs, told vnunet.com that the company expects to intercept over 1.2 million occurrences of the worm.
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