Virus alert about the Mydoom and Doomjuice worm variants for Outlook and Outlook Express products

The Microsoft Product Support Services Security Team is issuing this alert to inform customers about the new Mydoom and Doomjuice worm variants. This worm appears to be spreading. Best practices, such as not opening e-mail attachments until they are confirmed to be safe, can help to prevent infection from this worm. Review the information, and then take the appropriate action for your environment. For more information about this alert, visit one or more of the following Microsoft Web sites.

• IT Professional alert:
  http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/ (http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/)
• Consumer alert:
  http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/mydoom.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/mydoom.mspx)