PC Security Shield Virus Alert: I-Worm.Win32.Mydoom.18200
  • Also Known As
    		•     
  • Type
    		•  I-worm 
  • Systems Affected
    		•  Win32 
  • Resident in System Memory
    		•  No
  • Origin
    		•  others
  • Encryption
    		•  No
  • Discovered on
    		•  09/09/2007
  • How it spread
    		•  Email
  • Infection symptoms
    		•  Analyzing
  • Specific date of infections
    		•   None
  • Destructivity/ Distribution Potential
    		•  ** / ***  
  • ViRobot version able to detect/repair
    		•  Able to detect/repair
    [ViRobot version: 09/9/2007 

    Technical Description

    Summary

    This worm spreads via email and was found on Sep.9, 2007. Hauri Mail server has received the tens of mails sent by worm and the

    variant of this worm is spreadig.

    Upon infection, worm downlowds and executes several URL defined inside worm, and creates winspf32.exe(18,200bytes) in thw Wondow

    system folder. Worm retrieves email addresses from infected system and mass-mailing.

    Infection method

    Worm spreads itself with its own SMTP engine, the spreading object is searched and retrieved from the files that have the following extentions in the infected system.




    How to repair:       [Repair by using The Shield AntiVirus 2008]


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