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on Thursday July 09, @11:13PM
tsu doh nimh writes "Several news sources are reporting that the tens of thousands of Microsoft Windows systems infected with the Mydoom worm and being used in an ongoing denial of service attack against U.S. and S. Korean government Web sites will likely have their hard drives wiped of data come Friday. From The Washington Post's Security Fix blog, the malware is "designed to download a payload from a set of Web servers. Included in that payload is a Trojan horse program that overwrites the data on the hard drive with a message that reads "memory of the independence day," followed by as many "u" characters as it takes to write over every sector of every physical drive attached to the compromised system." ChannelNews Asia
carries similar information, citing a Korean government agency: "In a sign of further disruption to come, Yonhap quoted the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) as saying that tens of thousands of virus-contaminated personal computers "appear automatically programmed to destroy their own stored data starting Friday.
The KCC said the virus was set to destroy the data of at least 20,000 contaminated PCs across South Korea." Link to Original Source
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