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New Worms Feed on MyDoom Infections

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sucks-to-run-windows dept.

JJP writes "ZDNet Australia is reporting that two new worms, Doomjuice and Deadhat, are taking over computers previously infected by the MyDoom virus. Apparently they try to uninstall the MyDoom virus and then take over the PC to start their own malignant work. Whilst the threat these two worms pose shouldn't be too big, both needing a MyDoom backdoor, it is still a novel way to spread a virus. In the Netherlands there is a newspaper reporting this proves MyDoom was initialy spread by organised crime in a dark plot to wage cyber-war and steal confidential data from our computers."

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  1. Organized crime? by October_30th · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Like spammers.

    When are the nation states going to wake up and start an international war against spam?

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  2. First post about muffins! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Muffins.

    Mmm-mmm.

    Nothing wrong with *that*!

  3. Re:Get a Mac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or mac n cheese...which ever you prefer.

    oh boy am I hungry!

  4. Error checking? by HarveyBirdman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Error checking on /.? Wouldn't that be like mixing matter and antimatter. Or dark matter. Or green cheese. Or whatever curve the cosmologists have fit to the observations this week.

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  5. Re:Get a PENCIL AND PAPER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Low tech = the new insightful?

  6. This just proofs there is an imminent thread... by ErnstKompressor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    of WMDs in Iraq...

    I think the solution would be a really big spool...

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  7. Oh NO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's the BORG!