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It was first publicized last week, but now Microsoft believes that an unpatched security hole that affects all versions of Internet Explorer represents a greater danger than was originally believed.
The company is reportedly working on an emergency patch, but is recommending setting the internet zone security setting to ‘high’ and disabling Ole32db.dll in access control lists (ACL) to offer the best defense against attack.
In the Microsoft Malware Protection Center blog, the company wrote:
Virus Cleaner is currently able to identify and remove the following worm families:
Win32:Badtrans [Wrm]
Win32:Beagle [Wrm] (aka Bagle), variants A-K
Win32:Blaster [Wrm] (aka Lovsan), variants A-M
Win32:BugBear [Wrm], including B variant
Win32:Ganda [Wrm]
Win32:Klez [Wrm], all variants (including variants of Win32:Elkern)
Win32:MiMail [Wrm], variants A, C, E, I-N, Q, S-U
Win32:Mydoom [Wrm] (variants A, B, D, F-H – including the trojan horse)
Win32:Nachi [Wrm] (aka Welchia, variants A-G)
Win32:NetSky [Wrm] (aka Moodown, variants A-O)
Win32:Nimda [Wrm]
Win32:Opas [Wrm] (aka Opasoft, Opaserv)
Win32:Scold [Wrm]
Win32:Sircam [Wrm]
Win32:Sober [Wrm], variants A-D
Win32:Sobig [Wrm], including variants B-F
Win32:Swen [Wrm], including UPX-packed variants
Win32:Yaha [Wrm] (aka Lentin), all variants
Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will help you remove selected worm infections from your computer.
avast! Virus Cleaner is currently able to identify and remove the following worm families:
Win32:Badtrans [Wrm]
Win32:Beagle [Wrm] (aka Bagle), variants A-K
Win32:Blaster [Wrm] (aka Lovsan), variants A-M
Win32:BugBear [Wrm], including B variant
Win32:Ganda [Wrm]
Win32:Klez [Wrm], all variants (including variants of Win32:Elkern)
Win32:MiMail [Wrm], variants A, C, E, I-N, Q, S-U
Win32:Mydoom [Wrm] (variants A, B, D, F-H – including the trojan horse)
Win32:Nachi [Wrm] (aka Welchia, variants A-G)
Win32:NetSky [Wrm] (aka Moodown, variants A-O)
Win32:Nimda [Wrm]
Win32:Opas [Wrm] (aka Opasoft, Opaserv)
Win32:Scold [Wrm]
Win32:Sircam [Wrm]
Win32:Sober [Wrm], variants A-D
Win32:Sobig [Wrm], including variants B-F
Win32:Swen [Wrm], including UPX-packed variants
Win32:Yaha [Wrm] (aka Lentin), all variants
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