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Hotmail Fails To Block SirCam Worm | |
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| Time: 21:56 EST/02:56 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Viper | ||
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The anti-virus protection offered by Microsoft's Hotmail service hasn't been updated to protect users against the prolific SirCam worm. Register readers have written in to inform us that the McAfee virus scanning engine used by Hotmail does not stop users either sending or receiving the bug which has become a major nuisance for Internet users this week. The McAfee virus scanner used by the revamped Hotmail blocks earlier bugs, such as the Anna Kournikova worm, but not SirCam. Informed sources tell us Hotmail's protection is updated on Thursday night, so hopefully things will be put right soon. Hotmail is one of the few Web-based email services to have any virus protection. MessageLabs has intercepted 25,622 copies of the virus so far, 3,557 of which were caught today, and it predicts that today marks the peak of the outbreak, after which the virus will slowly fade away. | ||
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| #1 By 111 (Unknown) at 7/26/2001 8:21:00 AM |
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Fortunately, I knew that the file.doc.pif file I was sent last week was a virus before it made national news. However, my Mcafee software failed to block it. I immediately uninstalled VirusScan and installed a copy of NAV I had lying around...which found the virus. I tried removing the .pif extension and openin the document anyway. When MSWord showed the raw content of that file, especially the "this program must be run in Microsoft Windows..." line of binary text, I knew it was a Virus.
But the bottom line: I have noticed that Mcafee's software is too-internet based. It does a piss-poor job of computer scanning and is a memory hog as well. I have been a long-time supporter of VirusScan, but the fact that a someone older version of NAV had SirCam support and Mcafee did not really annoys me. So long to NAI. |
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