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General discussion

Exploit-Mydoom

Feb 11, 2004 11:56PM PST

Malware Information
Discovery Date: 02/12/2004
Origin: Unknown
Length: Various
Type: Malware
SubType: Win32

Description Added: 02/12/2004
Description Modified: 02/12/2004 2:24 AM (PT)

Malware Characteristics:
This identification detects malware intended to exploit the backdoor opened on machines infected with either W32/Mydoom.a@MM or W32/Mydoom.b@MM .

A variant of an existing proxy trojan (Proxy-MitGlieder ) that appears to propagate through the Mydoom backdoor has been received. This is detected as Exploit-Mydoom with the specified DATs on gateway products or as a variant of Proxy-MitGlieder (since the 4317 DATs).

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101014.htm

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