Notices
NSC-040726: W32.Mydoom.M@mm virus
This morning a new virus started spreading across campus. This virus appears to come from technical support of the university. In fact this message is a virus and the attachment should not be opened. As a policy, attachments are NEVER sent with notification of a problem. If you should receive a message like this, please do not open the attachment. The message can have a number of formats. Here is an example of one seen on campus:
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Dear user (username)@uiowa.edu,
We have received reports that your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of unsolicited email during the recent week. We suspect that your computer had been compromised and now runs a trojaned proxy server.
Please follow our instruction in order to keep your computer safe.
Sincerely yours,
uiowa.edu technical support team.
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Additional information and a detailed list of all message formats can be found here:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mydoom.m@mm.html