F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.bi

Mytob is a family of IRC bots with email spreading capability. Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.bi is a typical variant of this family.

However, F-Secure Anti-virus also had a false alarm by this name on several different files between 18th - 19th of October 2005.

The false alarm was fixed in database update 2005-10-19_03 that was published in 09:50 GMT 19th of October 2005. We apologize for the inconvenience.