[RESOLVED] Update your AV Definitions

[Darren Wilson]

Another pain in the a$$ virus in the wild.....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18830.html

[LagMonster]

Thanks Darren.

[SubZero]

I got a notice about it early this morning, I just hadn't read it yet.

[Pogi]

This one's moving fast, we got hit with it late this morning.

[MacGyver]

I keep telling people, download this program:
http://www.cerberus-infosec.co.uk/vf.exe

and it will basically disable VBS files from running on your computer completely. No more VBS virus worries. But nobody seems to listen...

[Wayward Clam]

MacGyver, that strikes me as the most intelligent approach to the problem yet.

But is there anything major on a normal network this is gonna screw up? (Pretend I'm a baby network administrator and I don't know the consequences of all my actions...)

[MacGyver]

The only side effect I've found with removing the VBS extensions is that windowsupdate.microsoft.com doesn't work anymore. However in a network admin environment, I'd be rolling out any critical updates via ZENworks or some other workstation management protocol.

[http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi]

The Security Patch for Outlook 98 and 2000 actually DOES work quite well for killing e-mail based viruses. It deletes ANYTHING executable, regardless of source, content or intention. While this can make transfering files a bit of a hastle, it stops VBS viruses dead in their tracks.

This combined with a good anti-virus program for catching Office macro viruses, and I'm 99.9% protected against viruses through e-mail.

[Pyroate]

thanks for the warning.