March 19, 2004

W32.HLLW.Polybot

The latest in the round of virus's is Polybot. At the time of writing (2pm on the 19th), Symantec have two patches - the Virus Definitions updated March 19th (which don't actually exist if you try to download them, and the Virus Definitions dated March 24th. They can work out how to name a virus and how it spreads (via RPC vulnerabilitys that should have been patched) but no fix yet.....Thankfully we've not had any come through via email yet.

Posted by Andy at March 19, 2004 2:07 PM