The latest variant of the MyDoom worm, which was discovered Tuesday, peaked after around 12 hours and has already started dying out, according to antivirus companies.
A leading information technology security company has played down the risk posed by the new Evaman mass-mailing worm, but warned it could still be of nuisance value to Australian users.
Yahoo has announced it will reject messages with certain subject lines to combat delays incurred due to the MyDoom virus.
Antivirus companies are perplexed by a spate of recent viruses that contain messages in which the writers threaten to attack them.
Anti-virus companies say malware writers are undeterred by Microsoft's US$250,000 bounty after discovering another variant of the mass-mailing worm MyDoom over the weekend.
The Bagle computer virus has almost finished off the alphabet. Virus writers' penchant for modifying the source code for the program has resulted in four new variants--Bagle.Q, Bagle.R, Bagle.S and Bagle.T--in the past two days, antivirus firms said on Thursday.
Increasingly, attackers are using better tools to find vulnerabilities quickly, exploit flaws and hide their attacks.
E-mail inboxes are being swamped as Netsky.B continues to increase its infection rate.
Mydoom is a mass mailing and peer-to-peer (KaZaA) worm that targets The SCO group. This worm is spreading rapidly and went from a standing start to a category 4 rating at Symantec in one leap.
See how Netsky, Bagle, and Mydoom variants have been causing havoc for corporate mail systems and learn how to blunt their attacks. Additional reading: Antivirus Resource Centre
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