"Touching Wood"?  Really?!?!

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:27 AM, John Aldrich
<[email protected]>wrote:

>  You could always switch to Vipre Enterprise. J That’s what we’re using
> here and it seems to catch it. So far, I don’t think it’s missed a single
> attempt since upgrading to Vipre Enterprise 4. (knocking on / touching
> wood!)
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> *From:* John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:20 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware
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> The “Security Tools” malware is about to drive me insane. My users keep
> managing to infect themselves with it, and we’re having trouble stopping it.
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> They don’t run with admin rights, so there’s no real damage done to their
> systems and we can clean it up in about two minutes. But the time adds up,
> and I’m tired of my technicians having to waste time on it.
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> Our antimalware software is Microsoft’s Forefront Client Security, and it’s
> having a tough time catching this. Every time I get infected, I send the EXE
> to Microsoft and they update their definitions—but the EXE’s used by the
> malware apparently change rapidly, and seem to constantly be a step ahead of
> FCS’s definitions.
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> I can think of a couple of options that I know would stop it, like blocking
> all EXE’s at our web filter or using group policy to limit the running of
> EXE’s—but this would also prevent users from doing things like installing
> safe plug-ins from websites, so it’s not a first resort.
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> Suggestions?
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> John Hornbuckle
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> MIS Department
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> Taylor County School District
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