New Worm - Variant of the W32.Mytob worm called
W32.Mytob.EG@mm - June 13, 2005

Over the last few days several variants of the W32.Mytob worm has been
appearing on campus. These are mass-mailing worms with insidious social
engineering characteristics which are designed to get individuals to
open attachments containing the actual infections. All of them have
similar characteristics but the latest one is called W32.Mytob.EG@mm
which opens an IRC back door and lowers security settings on the
compromised computer. ITS is taking appropriate actions to mitigate thespread of the worm as well as the others. Until virus definition filesare updated, the best thing to do is delete any emails of this typereceived and
regularly check for new virus definitions. For more information go to the URL http://www.symantec.com/