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A big viral attack at the moment

By Kalomir. Original by Lionel - 27/01/2004 16:24:22 CET - Category: PC
Though we aren't directly concerned, from this morning on, a big viral attack has started on PC.
A worm called "Mydoom.A" is responsible for that. It is spreading through mail attachment, then replicates by sending messages itself.
On a PC, it opens a port allowing ill-intentioned people to gain remote control of the machine. It has also been programmed to launch an attack against SCO site on February 1st.
But this is also a bit of a concern to us, as my mail box is overflown with contaminated messages (over 150 since this morning).
As this virus will also usurpate the identity of one of the infected person's contacts, you'll also receive automatic messages from anti-virus software's and delivery failure messages from mail servers.
Hence our mail server is lagging and is a bit irritated like we are.
PS: while writing this news, I have come to 160 msg :((
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