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May 9th, 2001, 10:23 AM
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Update your AV Definitions
Another pain in the a$$ virus in the wild.....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18830.html |
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May 9th, 2001, 10:34 AM
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Thanks Darren.
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May 9th, 2001, 10:39 AM
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I got a notice about it early this morning, I just hadn't read it yet.
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May 9th, 2001, 02:07 PM
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This one's moving fast, we got hit with it late this morning.
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May 9th, 2001, 02:44 PM
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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... |
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May 9th, 2001, 02:52 PM
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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...)
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May 9th, 2001, 03:37 PM
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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.
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May 9th, 2001, 05:52 PM
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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. |
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May 10th, 2001, 02:10 PM
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thanks for the warning.
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