2 new virus exploits created by MyDoom
Anti-virus vendors warned: The two new viruses, which exploit the vulnerabilities of PCs caused by the Mydoom pandemic, began to spread from Monday to Monday. At low risk. Two new virus programs developed in the form of "opportunities" - called Doomjuice (or Mydoom.C) and Deadhat - are threatening computers that are currently infected with a version of the virus. MyDoom , but does not cause serious problems for businesses. "There are currently between 50,000 and 75,000 computers infected with these two new worms," said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of Network Associates' vulnerability and antivirus response. Doomjuice, which has moderate levels of infection, tries to direct its infected PCs into a new attack aimed at Microsoft's Web site, Gullotto said. This "re-offensive" attack may have caused Microsoft's website to be inaccessible on Sunday night and Monday morning. said Netcraft, which measures Internet service performance. According to Netcraft, Microsoft has encountered a number of Web site issues Monday morning. We can not confirm whether the latest virus is the author of the incident or not. Microsoft has not commented on this information. Doomjuice, programmed to scan PCs with security vulnerabilities caused by the MyDoom worm, has spread with enough PCs for Network Associates customers to report to Gullotto. "Doomjuice has achieved some success," said Gullotto. "It only infects computers that have been attacked by Mydoom, so of course many people do not even know their computers are infected with Doomjuice." Of course, just finding and infecting computers that have been devastated by Mydoom virus has significantly reduced the infection rate of these two new viruses, as they are harmless to the "clean" computers. . Network Associates has not yet received a second "virus" form of the second virus, Deadhat. Meanwhile, several other antivirus companies, including Network Associates and Symantec, believe that although Deadhat is spreading by scanning for compromised computers that two former Mydoom hackers have created, It did not reach a high level of infection with Doomjuice. Deadhat also spreads through a flaw in P2P file sharing software SoulSeek.
