My Doom Worm
sly
dsyc at go.ro
Sun Jan 2 22:58:51 UTC 2005
James McKenzie wrote:
> sly wrote:
>
>> Philip Moller wrote:
>>
>>> I have also got a nasty worm (Worm.Mydoom.M:) from
>>> *landsking at onemain.com
>>
>>
>>
>> how did you find it? i don't know much about worms and linux!
>>
> MyDoom is a Windows worm that has its own SMTP engine. You can find
> more information at www.symantec.com. Look for the SARC links or you
> should be able to search for the term.\
>
> Fortunately, your Linux system is not susceptible to this worm, but you
> could inadvertently send this worm onto your friends (well sort of)
> running WindowsXX. This is why we as Linux users should have a virus
> checker on our systems. I use the one that is provided by my ISP,
> Earthlink. They use a email scanner provided by Symantec.
> Unfortunately, certain messages are not automatically deleted but placed
> in quarrentine.
>
> Also, on the Windows side of my system, I run AVG Free 7.0 with the
> e-mail scanner and Zone Alarm's ZoneAlarm Firewall. This stops most
> baddies (no system can stop a really determined person wanting to get to
> your data.)
>
> James McKenzie
>
thank you for the advices!
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