Sunday, January 16, 2005

Another Mydoom, the first for 2005.


Another Mydoom, the first for 2005.
This is a mass-mailing and peer-to-peer file-sharing worm. sending various different types of messages with EXE, SCR or PIF attachments (31774 bytes) or a ZIP (variable size).
The message bodies we've seen so far include these ones:
The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment. Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available.The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.
You can find more on all the AV vendors websites.
We don't see much traffic for this going on at this moment here in Belgium.