- Top Search Engines are affected by Mydoom.N worm -
Virus Alerts, by Panda Software http://www.pandasoftware.com
Madrid, July, 27th, 2004 - The new Mydoom.N worm has caused critical
problems in some search engines such as Google, Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo!.
Some users have gotten error pages due to the searching that this worm
carries out through these engines.
Mydoom.N checks out every e-mail address stolen from affected computers in
Lycos, Altavista, Yahoo and Google. These engines, flooded by the several
requests, stop working properly. In addition, this fact is causing the
increase of the Internet traffic, that, it can also affect the entire
Internet.
Mydoom.N spreads fast via e-mail all over the world, so that, in a few hours
the number of affected PCs can be very high. It is very likely that the
e-mail systems can slow down because the big amount of traffic generated by
this worm.
Mydoom.N installs a file that opens a port and listens to it, thus behaving
as a backdoor. By doing so, it allows hackers to remotely access the
affected computer in order to carry out actions that would compromise users
confidentiality or impede normal work.
In order to minimize the effects, Panda Software offers to all the users the
free tool PQRemove to detect and disinfect Mydoom.N. This tool is available
at: http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
On the other hand, the new Panda Software's TruPrevent Technologies have
detected and blocked successfully Mydoom.N, without knowing beforehand this
malicious code The new TruPrevent Technologies are available in beta version
to download at http://www.pandasoftware.com/beta. They will be launching
next 29th July. The new TruPrevent Technologies are "The most intelligent
Technologies to combat unknow viruses and intruders" and are designed to
stop the worms attacks, like MyDoom.N, by behavioural analysis. They are a
complement of the traditional antivirus, as they are capable of detect and
block the unknown viruses.
Luis Corrons, Head of PandaLabs, says: "The new virus is following the way
left by the original Mydoom worm some months ago. It appeared 26th January
and affected hundred of thousands of computers in a few hours. Due the
capacity of spreading of this new virus and the way it reaches the PCs, like
a rejected e-mail, it is probably the number of infections can grow up
rapidly in the next hours".
Due to the risk of being infected by Mydoom.N, Panda Software advises users
to stay on their guard and make sure their antivirus is updated. The company
has already made the updates to its products available to its clients to
ensure their solutions can detect and eliminate Mydoom.N.
Users can also scan and disinfect their computers using Panda ActiveScan,
the free, online scanner available from: www.pandasoftware.com. More
information about these and other IT threats is available from:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/
