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Be On the Lookout for the latest email worm. The latest round of the MyDoom virus was hitting web search engines such as Google.com today as it searched for email addresses to propagate the virus. Now would be a good time to update your virus definitions and remember to be wary of any emails from friends and co-workers that contain the following subject lines:
• hello
• hi
• error
• status
• test
• report
• delivery failed
• Message could not be delivered
• Mail System Error - Returned Mail
• Delivery reports about your e-mail
• Returned mail: see transcript for details
• Returned mail: Data format error The online attack marked an evolution of a worm called MyDoom that infected hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this year. In the current variant, MyDoom not only scans the hard drives of victims for e-mail addresses, but also turns to online search sites to find additional leads.
The worm then sends a copy of itself as an e-mail attachment to those addresses. Users who open those attachments, and who are not protected by security software, infect their own computers.
"Those search requests have been overloading the search engines," said Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technology for Keynote Systems Inc., which measures Web site performance.
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