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MyDoom worm avoids Berkeley?


From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:39:01 -0500


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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:41:45 -0800
From: Myriam Godfrey <myr () socrates Berkeley EDU>
Subject: MyDoom worm avoids Berkeley?
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To: dave () farber net


Interesting--was just reading the description of the MyDoom worm on the symantec site (http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a () mm html) and noticed the following:

"When W32.Novarg.A@mm sends email, it avoids distributing to the domains that contain any of the following strings:"
...
"berkeley"


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