On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I realise we have enough threads off topic at the moment, but how is
> everyone going with the kournikova virus? As you can see below, its on the
If people are still having problems with VBS worms (and there's every
indication that they are ;)) then they need to _seriously_ look at their
e-mail infrastructure to determine why the hell they're passing .vbs
attachments.
> move in a big way. Amazing thing is that there seem to be lot of sites out
> there with no scanning on their firewall or mail servers, only on desktops!
Scanning isn't effective against mass mailers that get traction- the
widespread infection rates have gone from weeks and days to hours, which
isn't a long enough window to get scanners updated in time to stop a new
threat.
In this particular case, only about half of AV products detected this
worm (or more properly the toolkit used to write it in most cases) prior
to this afternoon. Secondary controls such as filtering out .vbs
attachments are much more effective.
> When will they learn?
Probably about the time the bulk of the world switches from "one size fits
all with everything turned on" desktop software. But then I find it
incredible that corporations haven't taken a serious look at what running
Outlook has cost them over the last three years compared to several of the
alternatives. All that integrated calendering and scheduling must be
pretty darned important for the price it's cost.
Paul
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