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Shiloch Veneficus
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:43 am    Post subject: Virus Alert!

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I usually won't post anything like this unless it's disastrous. My e-mail server updates its AV signatures once every 8 hours. This virus propagated yesterday around 10:30 AM EDT, and by 12 PM EDT, I'd already gotten over 30 copies of it. Thankfully one of my users spotted the suspicious e-mail and I caught it early on, but I'm just letting it be known that even if you update your AV signatures every 8 hours, it won't get everything. I've changed the scheduler on my e-mail server to check for updated AV signatures once every hour now. Razz

Kaspersky labels this worm as I-Worm.Bagle.al, and lists it as moderate risk: http://www.viruslist.com/eng/alert.html?id=2011913

McAfee lists it as W32/Bagle.aq@MM and Symantec lists it as W32.Beagle.AO@mm.

If you care to read about what the virus does, it's pretty interesting. I got a nice chuckle out of it. Smile

Update your virus signatures, and as always be very careful when you open suspicious e-mails. You don't need to update yours every hour, but this just goes to show you how important it is to do on a regular basis.

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