eEye’s Research Team To Conduct Monthly Webcasts To Help Organizations Better Understand New Vulnerabilities And How It Will Impact Enterprise Network Security.
(ALISO VIEJO, CA) January 27, 2004 — eEye Digital Security, a leading provider of network security software, has released a free scanning tool to detect this rapidly spreading email virus. The virus – called "Mydoom," "Novarg" or "WORM_MIMAIL.R" — has been propagating via email and infecting unsuspecting recipients.
This mass-mailing virus selects targets from a list of email subjects, message bodies, and attachment file names to exploit unsuspecting email recipients. The virus, once executed, spoofs the sender name of its messages so that it appears to have been sent by different users instead of the actual users of the infected machines. Upon infecting a computer, the worm will set up a backdoor into the system by opening TCP ports 3127 through 3198, resulting in a vulnerability which could allow an attacker to connect to the computer and gain access to its network resources. The backdoor could also allow for the download and execution of arbitrary files. This virus effects users of the following Microsoft operating systems; Windows® 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP.
“It is absolutely imperative that administrators scan their networks and identify infected machines workstations and take corrective actions,” said Firas Raouf, chief operating officer at eEye Digital Security. “Users of eEye’s Retina Network Security Scanner can identify this vulnerability and take the proper steps to remediate.”
eEye is offering a free scanning utility that scans network machines and detects if any have been infected by the worm, allowing administrators to quickly target machines which need to be disinfected. The Retina® MyDoom Scanner is based on eEye's award-winning network security scanner Retina®, which proactively guards against vulnerabilities by regularly assessing the integrity of enterprise networks to uncover and fix potential security weaknesses — before they result in lost productivity or business discontinuity. While the free tool allows for quick scanning by searching for this particular infection, Retina detects over one thousand vulnerabilities to provide ongoing, comprehensive security audits for any network. Utilities with disinfection capabilities are also available for purchase.
The free Retina® MyDoom Scanner can be found by visiting:
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Tools/MyDoom.html.
For more information about this virus and how it affects your network, join eEye’s webcast today at 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time (GMT -08:00, San Jose). Sign up at
http://www.eeye.com/html/News_Events/Events/index.html.
For more information on Retina Network Security Scanner please visit: http://www.eeye.com/html/Products/Retina/index.html
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eEye's Research Team is recognized as the preeminent leader in network security discovery and research – having detected dozens of high-severity vulnerabilities and worms in the past few years, including the Code Red, Sapphire and RPC DCOM II vulnerabilities.
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eEye Digital Security® is pioneering a new class of security products:integrated threat management. This next-generation of security detects vulnerabilities and threats, prevents intrusions, protects all of an enterprise’s key computing resources, from endpoints to network assets to web sites and web applications, all while providing a centralized point of security management and network visibility.eEye’s research team is consistently the first to identify new threats in the wild, and our products leverage that research to deliver on the goal of making network security as easy to use and reliable as networking itself. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Orange County, California, eEye Digital Security protects more than 9,000 corporate and government organizations worldwide, including half of the Fortune 100. For more information, please visit www.eeye.com
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