New Worm 'Myjuice' On The Loose

[rodbarnett]

CBS) People whose computers are infected with the Mydoom virus that has been spreading via e-mail for the past couple of weeks now have one more thing to worry about. A new worm, called "Myjuice" or "Mydoom.c" is attacking infected computers though a backdoor left by the Mydoom virus.

Although technically a new worm, Myjuice is being called a "variant" of Mydoom because it is related. Some antivirus experts speculate that it was probably written by the same person or persons responsible for Mydoom.

Mydoom, which circulated via files attached to email, infected hundreds of thousands of Windows computers over the past couple of weeks. Infected computers that are connected to the Internet could be further infected by Myjuice, which is an opportunistic worm that looks for the backdoor left open by Mydoom.


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