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Pavel Baudis

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Win32:Mydoom-B
« on: January 28, 2004, 07:10:49 PM »
Win32:Mydoom-B has been discovered in the wild recently. The avast! update is already out. I only wonder if it will be as much successful as its older brother.

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« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2004, 08:51:29 PM »
We picked this one up this afternoon.  I noticed ClamAV was catching them and McAfee wasn't, so I notified McAfee at around 15:30 GMT.

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Re:Win32:Mydoom-B
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2004, 10:56:25 PM »
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We picked....

Ehmm.... who's we? Are you an ISP? Are you located in Europe? (this makes a difference since you were saying 'this afternoon' :))

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Re:Win32:Mydoom-B
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2004, 11:08:01 PM »
Vlk Macworld has several emails infected with Mydoom and Mydoom.B
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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2004, 09:20:39 PM »
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We picked....

Ehmm.... who's we? Are you an ISP? Are you located in Europe? (this makes a difference since you were saying 'this afternoon' :))

Thanks
Vlk

I used the "Royal we" - I'm responsible for the email gateway for an English local authority.  Our corporate AV licence is with NAI/McAfee, but all mail to and from the internet is virus scanned and de-spammed on a Linux box, using the open source ClamAV antivirus and McAfee's uvscan for Linux.  I noticed ClamAV was catching some that McAfee was missing at around 15:00 GMT.  I use Avast on my home PC, which is why I'm here...

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Re:Win32:Mydoom-B
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2004, 03:33:49 PM »
Just found Mydoom-B in a documents.zip file. Thanks to Avast!