Email of the Week Ode to the Tech Talk Listener MyDoom Worm Installs Backdoor and Targets SCO and Microsoft Website of the Week: www.wififreespot.com Local Hackers Group: DC2600 2004 ? The Year of the Upgrade MikeRoweSoft.com Litigation Settled Bill Gates To Be Knighted Playboy and AOL Settle Keyword Advertising Case Stratford News
F-Secure estimates that 20 to 30% of all email traffic is MyDoom. In just three days, Mydoom blew past SoBig to become the worst worm in virus history. Infected 500,000 systems on Wednesday alone.
My personal mailbox has been hit hard (Zero on the Sunday ( 25th), 9 on Monday, 27 on Tuesday, 53 on Wednesday, 45 on Thursday, 41 on Friday)
The worm harvests addresses from infected machines and targets files with the following extensions: .wab, .adb, .tbb, .dbx, .asp, .php, .sht, .htm, .txt.
Mydoom also tries to randomly generate or guess likely email addresses to send itself to.
In addition, Mydoom opens a connection on TCP port 3127-3198, an indication of a backdoor for subsequent actions by hackers.
Programmed to start a DDOS attack February 1st thru 12th on SCO (Version A) and February 3rd thru 12th on Microsoft (Version B)
Linux lovers jubilant about SCO attack. On Slashdot.org, ?Finally a worthwhile virus. Where can I download a copy??
The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.
The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.
Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available.
Attached file: Various, with extensions including .exe, .pif, .cmd, .scr. The attachment often arrives in a zip archive, and is also represented by what appears to be a text file icon, but is in fact an executable.
Actions you should take: Update Virus scan with latest signatures and use a firewall. If infected download a program to clean your machine. Most anti-virus companies have posted this program as a public service. Stinger by McAfee is a good removal tool.
Playboy accused Netscape of trademark infringement through its "keying" ad system that offered advertisers a list of more than 400 keywords
Keywords included the two trademarked Playboy terms, which would trigger adult-oriented ads.
Unlike Google and Overture, Netscape did not offer companies recourse to remove their trademarked terms.
Terms of settlement, which will presented to the courts next week, were not disclosed
Buying keywords has become an important search engine advertising revenue source
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