A new virus Mydoom has hit the computer world affecting a lot of computers. This virus resorts to sending large number of e-mails affecting the mail servers of lots of big companies.

    The message is being sent with one of several different random subject lines, such as "Mail Delivery System," "Test" or "Mail Transaction Failed." The body of the e-mail contains an executable file and a statement such as: "The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment." and "The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment." Some times it also sends .zip files. I also received a few e-mails in my yahoo inbox, which was automatically put into my bulk folder by Yahoo.

    Once opened, the program installs itself and makes itself a node for a network based attack. The latest version also disables all security systems. It disallows anti-virus softwares to do virus updates from the network.

    Senior IT Researchers are expecting this worm to hang on to the network for sometime. This could adversely affect the speed of internet programs and websites.