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ROCKAMANIAC
February 2nd, 2004, 03:45 PM
This is for the Newbies most people should already know this! But im posting it anyways!

Mydoom worm is being spread at a huge rate through Kazaa, emails and many other file sharing programs! Microsoft has called Mydoom the fastest spreading virus yet! I got hit by it yesterday whilst downloading a Rock Screensaver from Kazaa !

So i have gathered a few Free Mydoom Virus Removal tool from the worlds leading antivirus companies Bitdefender and Norton

Free Tools From Bitdefender (http://www.bitdefender.com/html/free_tools.php)

Tool from Norton (http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html)

Dont have an Antivirus At All ! & Cant afford to pay! Then Look no further
Get this Free Award Winning Antivirus Software from Grisoft - Provides Full Protection from Viruses and Trojans (http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php)
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Free Online Antivirus Scan (http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm)
From Panda - One of the worlds Best Antivirus Companies

Technical description from Bitdefender.com:
This is an internet worm that spreads trough e-mail and file sharing programs and has backdoor capabilities.

It also tries to infect computers in the local network already infected by the former variant of the worm, by using the backdoor already installed on port 3127.

The e-mail arrives in the following format:

From:
A random text or an address with one of the following domains:


aol.com

msn.com

yahoo.com

hotmail.com

RACKnRAIL
February 10th, 2004, 07:07 AM
Let's hope this helps someone. I have yet to see any sign of this virus...

muffenme
February 10th, 2004, 07:49 AM
:fire

Currently, knock on wood, my system is free of any virus that I know of including mydoom.

:hole

stewiegriffin
February 10th, 2004, 08:26 AM
www.avast.com - another decent free antivirus for those who don't want to pay.

RACKnRAIL
February 10th, 2004, 09:54 AM
www.avast.com - another decent free antivirus for those who don't want to pay.

IMHO... I think this is the better one of the two main free AV's.