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Avastfan1

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Urgent!! Does Avast protect against this rapidly spreading worm?
« on: January 19, 2009, 04:26:05 PM »
Hello Avast Forum Gurus,

Does Avast protect against this rapidly spreading worm?

http://www.f-secure.com/f-secure/pressroom/news/fs_news_20090107_01_eng.html

It's doing the rounds of the newswires and I'm not sure if Avast protects against it.

Best wishes,

Avastfan1
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YoKenny

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Re: Urgent!! Does Avast protect against this rapidly spreading worm?
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2009, 05:01:56 PM »
I know that Windows Defender has been updated to detect and remove it:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal

Make sure that Windows is up to date by running Secunia Online Software Inspector:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online
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Offline Maxx_original

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Re: Urgent!! Does Avast protect against this rapidly spreading worm?
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2009, 05:27:06 PM »
mentioned few times in the forums.. avast has a very good detection and is able to kill the malware from boot-time scan even when the file is well protected..
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Re: Urgent!! Does Avast protect against this rapidly spreading worm?
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2009, 07:00:58 PM »
Hi folks,

Here the domains to be blocked: http://malwaredomains.com/?p=355

More  fake antispyware, exploits, downadup domains to blackhole.
Sources include bharath-m-narayan.blogspot.com,
www.threatexpert.com,
www.malwaredomainlist.com,
and especially www.f-secure.com:

pol
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