PETALING JAYA: Local antivirus company Extol Corp said it has detected a new variant of the MyDoom-A or Novarg computer virus that began spreading rapidly across the Internet on Monday.
The new MyDoom-B variant, detected on Wednesday night, has not only been modified to slip past MyDoom-A defences but to also make it impossible for infected computers to access the websites of several of the world’s leading antivirus software firms.
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