>Have you have any successful attempts? Yes, Norton Anti-Virus has successfully detected and quarantined this virus since I downloaded the daily manual update for 01/13 and installed it.
Those who use Norton's Live Update have their virus definitions updated once a week automatically if and only if the automatic update option has been turned on. AFAIK the Live Update virus definitions are updated once a week on the Norton web site. Assuming a random distribution of Norton user update dates the probability that any user would have updated their virus definitions by 8PM PST 01/13/03 would have been very roughly 0.5. Mine weren't yet updated for that week and the virus came right through Norton's virus barrier. I thought some of the list members might find this information useful. While this virus is less than catastrophic, getting rid of it would require a bit of time. The page you cited from my original reference did not contain the information you refer to below at the time of my posting. In fact the first time I looked at it on 01/13 all it had was the name of the virus and its type, discovery date, and that it was "wild" and "Threat Category 2". By midnight or so on the 13th the page stated that the virus had been upgraded to Threat Category 3 and that the virus definition was in the "Intelligent Updater" for 1/13 which I downloaded and used. At that point I confirmed that the virus was the one I suspected and I posted a warning to the list. BTW the Symantec page in question was most recently updated on 01/17/03 at 11:24PM which is probably the version you are quoting. Symantec didn't post a method for curing an infected machine until 01/14 and now I see they have added a tool for removing this particular virus. At 05:52 PM 1/19/2003 -0500, you wrote: >>> This one is moderately nasty and your current Norton AntiVirus files >will >not detect this virus. You can get an intermin update from Symantec. I've >had six infection attempts in two days. > >See: > >http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ><< > >According to this link, the 1/10/2003 updates WILL stop it. Have you have >any successful attempts? > >
