New MyDoom Worm Has No File, Just a URL, Exploits IE Hole
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The newest version of MyDoom does not even have a file attached to it, making it look even less suspect and less worm- or virus-like.
Instead, it exploits one of the more recently discovered holes in Internet Explorer, through which clicking on a URL can cause a file to be downloaded to the unsuspecting user’s computer. Once downloaded to the user’s machine, the file executes, harvests e-mail addresses, and starts spewing spam from the user’s computer.
The MyDoom e-mail spam is sometimes appearing to come from… [Continued]
