MyDoom.BB Worm Spreading Fast
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:30 pm
The new variant Mydoom.BB worm seems to be spreading fast, had an alert from F-Secure about it today, and later received an infected email (thankfully I already had the heads-up
Full details hereMyDoom.BB appeared on February 17th, 2005. Like the previous variants, it is a mass-mailer that sends infected messages with various subject lines and body messages.
The worm's body is a Windows PE executable file compressed with the MEW executable compressor. It's most likely binary patched and repacked version of the older Mydoom variant, Mydoom.M.