The MyDoom virus is spreading and the press is positively incontenent with excitement breathlessly calling it “the largest virus infection ever!” Regardless of the panting super-hype, it’s another Outlook vulnerable attachment type of virus. Naturally, like the others, infecting you grabbing your address book and spreading it to your hapless friends. So far, I’ve successfully blocked 11,221 of them from the various servers I admin and I didn’t block every singe instance.
So, granted it’s not a small event but, there is a fix available from just about every anti-virus company… (Symantec Version – F-Secure version). Get the fix, update your virus softwares definitions and get back to work.
On a side-note… the virus was primarily engineered to take a swipe at SCO for their draconian licensing tactics of late. Whom in typical fashion are offering a 250k reward for the arrest of the author…