New version of computer virus found
Internet security experts yesterday found a new version of the Mydoom computer virus, dubbed the Mydoom.B, that evades detection measures for the original virus, Finland's F-Secure said
"The new virus has been modified so that the original Mydoom anti-virus protection does not detect it," Mikko Hyppoenen, director of F-Secure's anti-virus division, said. The Mydoom.B virus is designed to attack www.microsoft.com, the main website run by Microsoft Corp, as well as the website of US-based software vendor SCO, which had been the sole target of the original Mydoom virus. F-Secure Corporation is a leading provider of security for companies' computer systems, including anti-virus software. Computer users should update their virus protection software immediately, Huppoenen urged, adding that several anti-virus firms had already posted the necessary software free of charge on their websites. Yesterday, the original Mydoom virus continued to spread throughout the world, causing over 100 million infected e-mails to be sent. In Europe the percentage of e-mails infected by the Mydoom virus rose from 21 per cent to over 33pc, Hyppoenen said, citing statistics from several European Internet service providers. Most of those e-mails never reached end-users though, as many companies' anti-virus protection system intercepted them before they reached their destinations, he said.
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