Badtrans Worm Continues Spread

**str8jakit** · November 28th, 2001, 03:28 PM

We use Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition at my office. We also use Norton Antivirus for E-mail Gateways. This is basically an SMTP server that scans emails before sending them on to our e-mail server. I am the one that is responsible for antivirus measures at my company, so I am the one that gets all the e-mails whenever the viruses are detected in an e-mail.

We have had about 80 messages caught by the antivirus gateway with the Badtrans worm over the last 3 days. None have gotten through.

Activity today seems just as wild as the past couple of days.

**Mike** · November 28th, 2001, 06:35 PM

Good to know thanks!! Never hurts to know when there is a nasty virus/worm floating around.

**nilknarf** · December 3rd, 2001, 03:02 PM

We also use Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition. I have had one report of this particular virus thus far. Virus protection is second only to system security on our list of operational priorities (backups are third).

We minimize our risk by using email and network systems which are not as susceptible to virus attacks. We can get them, and sometimes the newer ones get past us and start to do damage, but we've yet to lose anything critical, and to our knowledge have never been able to leave our system.

I guess some people just have nothing better to do!!!!

Tim

**GroundZero3** · December 3rd, 2001, 03:40 PM

err my mom got it last night, i keep stressing the importance of updating. then she wonders why norton won't let her check her email some times

JaYsin

**korgul** · December 3rd, 2001, 04:00 PM

I guess we have been pretty lucky here so far. (knock on wood) We have not been infected or even seen the virus yet. We use Lotus Notes as our E-mail client so we should be alright.

korgul