Mydoom - new mass-mailer

[Christopher]

New mass-mailer according to McAfee. More details:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100983.htm

Pretty sure avast! will detect it soon, as usual  

[Christopher]

Yep, it's ITW !!

F-Secure is calling this one "Novarg"

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/novarg.shtml

[Christopher]

Just got the email and update from avast!

VPS 0401-5

*Fantastic*  

[Pavel Baudis]

Yep, the update is out since midnight

According to the first signs this looks like really HUGE outbreak!! I wonder what we will see tommorrow!!

Good luck

Pavel

[gr8efx]

I'm infected :'(  Just downloaded Avast for home use so now stopping anymore, but how do I clean it out?

Taskmon identified as culprit in windows and windows/system.

Pls help

gr8efx

[John-]

A few moments ago i got this virus in my mailbox,...strange,...my provider who serves the pop3's is secured with sophos....

Avast took care off it!!! hooray for avast!  


If you are infected => run a full system scan with Avast and use the "virus cleaner"

[Vlk]

The virus cleaner can't cope with MyDoom yet.
You'll have to use the competition this time e.g.http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/downloads/removaltools/Antinovarg-en.exe

[John-]

hehehe,...what is so strange bout this one is that i got the virus from "my own emailadres",....the attachement got deleted by avast!

even though in my outlook i had the option "download attachements" disabled,.... strange

[Pavel Baudis]

So - the updated avast! Cleaner (ver.162) is up on our web site! It is able to remove the Win32:Mydoom worm - it works like a charm  

Pavel

[MWassef]

grest  
thanx Pavel  

[bbfi]

Avast is working GREAT.

Since yesterday, I have received more than 100 of this virus.  The first dozen Avast notified me of the MyDoom virus.  After that I read up on the virus and found out what the subject lines were and since than I just delete any emails with those lines and an attachment.  But, if it wasn't for Avast originally catching MyDoom, my computer would be Doomed.  

[Firstc520]

i am amazed that  you would get 100 of them  in such a sort amount of time.   I have never gotten a repeated viruses by email ike that...  how much email do you get a day..lol

glad to hear that avast caught it though.  :-)

[bbfi]

We have a Christian prison ministry with a web site www.prisonministry.org and thousands of people have our email address.

Since this virus is spread through mass mailings of hte infected computer's address book, it is reasonable to see how we would get so many infections sent to us.  

Since I posted my original message (about an hour ago), we have received more than a dozen more infected emails.  

We usually get a few hundred emails a day.  

[John-]

thanks pavel for updating the "virus cleaner"  

[bbfi]

Check out this info, especially anyone using Kazaa - http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5147605.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news