Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Breaking Virus News: MyDoom Hobbles Internet E-mail:
"Removing/Blocking MyDoom

The easiest way to remove MyDoom and Novarg is to update your antivirus program. As of 1/27, most antivirus vendors have added at least beta detection and deletion to their pattern definition updates. If you don't have an antivirus, we have confirmation that TrendMicro's freely available Housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com, has been updated to detect the virus, but you'll have to manually remove the registry entries as outlined below. Panda Software also has a free removal utility (registry required) for MyDoom, http://www.pandasoftware.com/ virus_info/encyclopedia/

overview.aspx?idvirus=44140. McAfee's stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ has also been updated to detect and remove MyDoom. Note that you need to reboot after running Stinger to completely repair your system."

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=117496,00.asp

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