[RESOLVED] Update your AV Definitions

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

Thanks Darren.

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

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

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...

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...)

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.

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.

thanks for the warning.