Radware (NASDAQ; RDWR) the leading provider of Intelligent Application Switching (IAS) solutions ensuring the end-to-end availability, performance and security of networked applications across the enterprise, announced the immediate availability of protection against Mydoom M. Like earlier variants, this worm spreads rapidly via email through SMTP, targeting email addresses that it finds on an infected system. Using social engineering techniques, Mydoom M worm sends out an email with a spoofed sender's name and an email message that generally poses as a failure delivery notification. Once the system is infected, the worm opens a backdoor and sends traffic to the backdoor port, attempting to connect to other infected systems. This results in excessive traffic on the network and a degradation of network performance.
The Radware solution protects against the infection stage of Mydoom M as well as blocks the excessive traffic that is sent by this worm.
More information on Radware's Security Update Service can be found at http://www.radware.com/content/support/securityzone/serviceinfo/default.asp
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