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    Protect yourself from Mydoom

    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

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    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

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    Let's hope this helps someone. I have yet to see any sign of this virus...

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

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    www.avast.com - another decent free antivirus for those who don't want to pay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stewiegriffin
    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.

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