My Doom Worm

[sly]

James McKenzie wrote:
> sly wrote:
> 
>> Philip Moller wrote:
>>
>>> I have also got a nasty worm (Worm.Mydoom.M:)   from
>>> *landsking at onemain.com
>>
>>
>>
>> how did you find it? i don't know much about worms and linux!
>>
> MyDoom is a Windows worm that has its own SMTP engine.  You can find 
> more information at www.symantec.com.  Look for the SARC links or you 
> should be able to search for the term.\
> 
> Fortunately, your Linux system is not susceptible to this worm, but you 
> could inadvertently send this worm onto your friends (well sort of) 
> running WindowsXX.  This is why we as Linux users should have a virus 
> checker on our systems.  I use the one that is provided by my ISP, 
> Earthlink.  They use a email scanner provided by Symantec. 
> Unfortunately, certain messages are not automatically deleted but placed 
> in quarrentine.
> 
> Also, on the Windows side of my system, I run AVG Free 7.0 with the 
> e-mail scanner and Zone Alarm's ZoneAlarm Firewall.  This stops most 
> baddies (no system can stop a really determined person wanting to get to 
> your data.)
> 
> James McKenzie
> 

thank you for the advices!

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