Mydoom Virus Removal

Mydoom is a computer virus first sighted on 26th January 2004 which became the fastest-spreading e-mail worm till then. Mydoom was named so by a McAfee® security employee who discovered this worm and found the word “Mydom” in its code. Mydoom is believed to be commissioned by e-mail spammers to send junk e-mail using your computer and Internet connection. It spoofs the FROM address for its e-mails so that they appear to be sent by a genuine e-mail addresses (present in the PC) rather than the actual PC or user.

It can also spread via Kazaa peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing network. This mass mailing work often comes as an e-mail or IM attachment with a file extension of .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip. Mydoom worm was expected to be released by a programmer based in Russia. However, there is no proof for that. The early coverage of Mydoom performed denial-of-service-attack against a software company SCO group. It infected the company’s official website www.sco.com with flood of traffic.

Many antivirus companies started immediate work to design Mydoom virus removal tool. The Mydoom virus removal terminated the associated process and deletes the associated files and registry values that are added by Mydoom threat. The following steps explain the download and working process of Mydoom virus removal tool from Symantec™.

STEP 1 : Down the FxMydoom.exe file from: http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/global/removal_tool/threat_writeups
/FxMydoom.exe.

STEP 2: Save the file in your Windows® desktop or any other convenient location

STEP 3: Close all the programs running in your PC.

STEP 4: Disconnect the computer from all the network and Internet connections. Also, disable the wireless card.

STEP 5: If your computer is running on Windows® XP or Windows® Me version, turn off the System Restore.

STEP 6: Locate the downloaded file and double-click on FxMydoom.exe file to start the Mydoom virus removal tool.

STEP 7 – Click Start to begin the virus removal process.Note – If the tool is not working properly then restart the computer in Safe mode and run the Mydoom virus removal tool again.

STEP 8- Restart the computer.

STEP 9- Enable system restore if you have turned it off.

STEP 10- Connect to Internet or network connection and run LiveUpdate to make sure your PC has the latest virus definitions.

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