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Mydoom.O worm threat rated high

Our Bureau

Hyderabad , July 27

COMPUTER Associates and Symantec Corporation have announced that they have raised the threat level for the Mydoom.O worm to high, based on extremely intensive activity levels and exponential growth.

This latest worm is a blended or hybrid threat employing many techniques to deliver its harmful payload.

Computer users are cautioned to verify any unsolicited e-mails with senders. Infected Mydoom.O e-mails may contain one of the following subject lines of hello, hi, error, status, test, report, delivery failed and message could not be delivered.

Mydoom.O uniquely uses search engines and Web sites as it seeks to find new targets and the sheer volume of such traffic effectively causes denial of service attacks.

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