Hi all,
This one was the featured item in tonight's Trend weekly newletter. It's one of the ones that includes a zip attachment that, among other things, blocks access to quite a few of the better-known a-v websites (by over-writing the Hosts file).
I was somewhat amused that either its "authors" (of the virus, that is) never heard of avast, or else don't consider it worth worrying about. I've heard that's true of quite a few of worms and viruses that specifically target a-v software and/or sites, avast slips right past them.
Here's the list of blocked sites, according to Trend:
www.symantec.com securityresponse.symantec.com
symantec.com
www.sophos.com sophos.com
www.mcafee.com mcafee.com
liveupdate.symantecliveupdate.com
www.viruslist.com viruslist.com
f-secure.com
www.f-secure.com kaspersky.com
www.avp.com www.kaspersky.com avp.com
www.networkassociates.com networkassociates.com
www.ca.com ca.com
mast.mcafee.com
my-etrust.com
www.my-etrust.com download.mcafee.com
dispatch.mcafee.com
secure.nai.com
nai.com
www.nai.com microsoft.com
www.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com
update.symantec.com
updates.symantec.com
us.mcafee.com
liveupdate.symantec.com
customer.symantec.com
rads.mcafee.com
trendmicro.com
www.trendmicro.com Best to all,
Mike
