New variant of mydoom detected

Hi Everyone,
Please ensure you have latest updates as there has just been detected a new variant of mydoom (mydoom.b).
As detected by Kaspersky Antivirus (3.05pm GMT)

Taking Kaspersky Lab total to 80988 known viruses detected.

Regards
Lisa KL UK

 

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/68569/1/.html
- Edit by LWM: added URL tags.

Says " HELSINKI : The Mydoom.B computer virus spreads by users opening their e-mail, even if they leave attachments closed, making it more virulent than its predecessors, Mikko Hyppoenen, of Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure, told AFP.

"Some variants of the Mydoom.B version will run automatically from the e-mail, it's enough to just open and read the mail," Hyppoenen said Thursday.

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In the first version of the bug, recipients of corrupted e-mails only ran the risk of infection if they opened attachments.

"It will cause it to spread quite quickly," Hyppoenen said.

First detected Wednesday evening, the latest variant also uses a backdoor function of the first version to update itself and attack more computers.

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WTF?? So if i just open the email and not the attachment i get infected?? Even if I was not infected before? Regardless of my email client?

We are all dead then.