From: Alan (alancr@ntlworld.com)
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 15:20:41 EST
> My understanding is that Mydoom-infected hosts receive
> commands by connecting to an IRC channel.
Some variant might have, but most of the action here was network sweeps for
port whatever-it-was. Mydoom.c arrived with the source code and that
included a relatively trivial client (socks4 with kludges) for connecting,
sending and executing files via the mydoom backdoor.
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