Lovsan virus

[shooter]

Hi all,

Watch out for the lovsan virus!! this virus go in your computer and now friday or saturday it gonna attack microsoft! how simple: every computer with this virus help the owner of the virus to attack microsoft.
This virus was yesterday on the news on tv(belgium).

Shooter

ps: in Belgium only are more then thousand people with this virus!

I wonder  of Avast! dectect this virus?

[igor]

Yes, avast! detects this worm.
However, since the worm isn't spread by e-mail, it's quite hard for an antivirus to stop it from penetrating a vulnerable computer. Maybe switching on "Scan created/modified files" in Standard Shield might help a little - but still a part of the worm would be already active in memory when this alert pops up.
Shortly, the only real cure is applying the corresponding Microsoft security patch.

[Vlk]

For starters, it's worth noting that Lovsan is just another name for Win32.Blaster (and in it's unpacked form also sometimes identified as Rpc-Exploit by avast) which has been already discussed several times on this forum during the last few days...

Vlk